linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/90] Post 2.6.21 OMAP update

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Message-ID: <20070405180334.GW24297@atomide.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:03:36 -0400
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/90] Post 2.6.21 OMAP update

* Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> [070405 12:32]:
>  > > It would be enormously helpful if instead we got say 15 small patch sets
>  > > which are independant so that a query or NAK means 14 sets get applied
>  > > this time around not zero.
>  > 
>  > I was thinking about merging the patches together more, but the end result
>  > would not be very readable, and we would lose the original author info.
>  > 
>  > Also trying to do this 15 small patches at time would make it hard
>  > to have it all integrated within the two week merge window.
> 
> I think you misunderstood the suggestion.  The idea is that you leave
> the patches basically as-is (modulo any small tweaks required by
> reordering), but rather than one 90-patch series, you divide the
> patches up into independent subsets.  Maybe something like
> 
>  - basic OMAP fixes for bugs in core support
>  - Palm platform stuff
>  - ...other platform stuff
>  - new features
> 
> etc.  then it's easier for people to review the stuff they're
> interested in, and it's easier for at least some of the subsets to get
> applied (which reduces your backlog).

Hmm, yeah I'll see if I could group them a bit. The problem there
is that the patch series contains multiple rounds of "add and fix"
cycles. Pretty much all the non-dependant fixes have already been
applied, BTW.

Tony
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