linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] staging: fsl-mc: move bus driver out of staging

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Date:   Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:20:14 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@....com>
Cc:     "stuyoder@...il.com" <stuyoder@...il.com>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
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        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@....com>,
        Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@....com>,
        Catalin Horghidan <catalin.horghidan@....com>,
        Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>, Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@....com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] staging: fsl-mc: move bus driver out of staging

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:03:44PM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> Hi Greg, 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 11:40 AM
> > 
> > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 01:58:52PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@....com wrote:
> > > From: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@....com>
> > 
> > Your subject says 'v4' yet the other patches here in the series do not, they say
> > nothing, or 'v2', and the 0/10 patch says 'v6'!
> 
> I'm tracking the patch versions individually and use the cover letter version (v6 currently)
> to reflect the version of the patch series as a whole. There are a bunch of patches that are either newly
> introduced in this series or didn't had multiple versions so I didn't tagged them with a version tag.
> The patch [10/10] didn't changed since v4 so I left the version unchanged. The only change was in patch [07/10]
> for which I added a commit message so I bumped the version to v2.

And that's totally crazy.  What do you expect me, or anyone else, to
know what to do with that.  Heck, I can't even sort them by proper order
in which to apply them in, if I wanted to.  You are keeping me from
actually using your work :(

> > Please fix up and do this correctly.  The _whole_ patch series is versioned,
> > otherwise how can I sort them to apply them in the correct order?
> 
> Want me to tag all the patches with the same version (that is, v7 for
> the next respin)?

Yes, like everyone else does please :)

thanks,

greg k-h