On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:30:13AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:04:59 +0100 > Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 09:04:20AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > > To mailbombing on a large number of people, only mailing lists were C/C on the cover. > > > See [PATCH v3 00/23] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1634630485.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > It'd be a bit easier to put a note in here about what the dependencies > > are rather than forcing people to go out to a link to figure out what's > > going on unless it's complicated. > > > > 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. Those should be reduced now. I've been checking the renames since early August. July really, but MAINTAINERS was not getting checked initially. > 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. Just spliting between in Linus' tree and only in next would help me. The former I know I can just apply. > Btw, talking about what it would be easier, the best procedure to > adopt is to run: > > ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check > > Before sending/applying patches touching documents. Good luck with that. :( > That would avoid the need of such fixup patches ;-) > > Unfortunately, in the specific case of dt-bindings, things are not > that easy, as doc changes usually go via one tree, while references > to them come from other places. > > Regards, > Mauro >
