On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:30:13AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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