Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:04:47 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 21/23] regulator: dt-bindings: update samsung,s2mpa01.yaml reference |
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:30:13AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> escreveu:
> > For a case like this where there's no > > dependencies or real relationship between the patches it's probably > > better to just not thread everything and send the patches separately to > > everyone, the threading is just adding noise and confusion.
> It is not that easy, unfortunately. On some cases (specially due to > DT binding renames) some patches change the context of a hunk, affecting > a subsequent patch.
If that's the case then the cover letter really needs work to make this clear, I couldn't tell that there was any risk of dependencies nor would I expect any for such trivial changes.
> I tried a couple of times in the past to send the patches individually, > but that was messier, as there was harder for people to apply them, > as, instead of running b4 just once to get everything, maintainers > would need to apply each patch individually. Also, there were cases > where the patch order would be relevant, due to context changes.
You could also send a per subsystem series if there's a concern about it being hard to pick up individual patches. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |