<mattr94@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>These are correct changes, but is unrelated noise in the context of >>the theme of the patch, no? > > I think that's the case, would the recommended course of action be to > move these changes into its own commit? > Yup, and it generally is a good idea to make such a clean-up patch either early in the series, or as a standalone patch (with a note under three-dash lines that another topic is coming on top of the cleanup), because it would be much less likely to introduce new bugs and can be merged quicly to 'next' and then to 'master' to serve as a base to build your other changes on top.