linux-kernel - Re: mfd: Patch management?

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:49:59 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lars Pöschel <poeschel@...onage.de>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: mfd: Patch management?

> What I should do really is ask you to take all similar (remove error
> message, don't use sizeof(struct X), remove '== NULL') changes and
> squash them into single patches.

I would try such an approach more often if I would get also more
promising indications of corresponding change acceptance besides
other software development “surprises”.


> However, I realise that you might want the "upstream creds",
> so I won't do that

I find this view interesting somehow.


> -- but not at the expense of my time/effort.
> 
> The two choices are to squash or to create a set.

This information triggers recurring difficulties around differences
in the preferred patch granularity.

Regards,
Markus