On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > That's not how it works. It's helpful, more often than not, to submit > the entire set to each maintainer concerned so they can keep up with > the general conversation. By only sending specific patches to > maintainers you essentially blinker them to the bigger picture. > > As a maintainer you should _know_ that you can't apply patches from > other subsystems without appropriate Acks. I'm sure you'd take > exception to another maintainer who started accepting patches for > subsystems you are responsible for. This works both ways. No you are mistaken. You should only put patches which have dependencies on each other in a series. If the patches can be applied independently of each other there is no need to have them in a single series. Obviously if they can go into different trees then they cannot have dependencies. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
