Dear Russell King - ARM Linux, > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:27:58PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > > Dear Russell King - ARM Linux, > > > > > Do you really need 138 messages (and counting) all threaded together > > > across the entire history of this patch set? Please stop posting new > > > copies of your patch set as followups to the previous set. > > > > Well, it's usually to the point where the usb patches change, so instead > > of posting 8 patches, I post the whole set ot make it consistent. > > Sure, no problem with that. > > > > Not only does it rob horizontal space for reading the subjects in the > > > index, but also it either buries your patches ages back or brings the > > > entire 138 messages to the front of mailboxes, depending on your sort > > > preferences. Either way it makes threaded reading of the mailing list > > > really difficult. > > > > > > Please stop this antisocial behaviour. Thanks. > > > > Can you please suggest better solution? You mean post each new set as a > > separate thread ? Or post each patch as an in-reply-to previous one? > > Please don't thread the posting of a new version of the patches to > the previous posting of the older version. In other words, the > initial summary mail for V5 should not be threaded to the V4 series, > and the individual patches for V5 should only be threaded to the > initial summary mail for V5. > > So, rather than this as one massive thread: > ...[PATCH V3 0/N] > +-[PATCH V3 1/N] > > | `-Replies > > +-[PATCH V3 2/N] > > | `-Replies > > +-[PATCH V3 3/N] > > | `-Replies > > `-[PATCH V4 0/N] > +-[PATCH V4 1/N] > > | `-Replies > > +-[PATCH V4 2/N] > > | `-Replies > > +-[PATCH V4 3/N] > > | `-Replies > > `-[PATCH V5 0/N] > +-[PATCH V5 1/N] > > | `-Replies > > +-[PATCH V5 2/N] > > | `-Replies > > `-[PATCH V5 3/N] > `-Replies > > It should be: > [PATCH V4 0/N] > +-[PATCH V4 1/N] > > | `-Replies > > +-[PATCH V4 2/N] > > | `-Replies > > `-[PATCH V4 3/N] > `-Replies > > <some time later> > > [PATCH V5 0/N] > +-[PATCH V5 1/N] > > | `-Replies > > +-[PATCH V5 2/N] > > | `-Replies > > `-[PATCH V5 3/N] > `-Replies > > Where the 0/N patches have no parent message. In other words, these > sumamry messages have no references or in-reply-to headers. I see, roger that! > If you wish to provide a direct reference back to a previous thread, > please do so via URLs into archives, or providing the message id or > exact subject of the previous series in the new summary message body. > But please don't thread each version to the previous version! Ack. Thanks for clearing this out, sorry for the mess. Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
