linux-kernel - Re: Adjustments for a lot of function implementations

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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:48:03 +0100
From:   Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Muralidharan Karicheri <mkaricheri@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adjustments for a lot of function implementations

On 10/30/2017 11:40 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>>>>> Feel free to repost, but only if you organize the patch as either fixing the same type of
>>>>> issue for a whole subdirectory (media/usb, media/pci, etc)
>>>
>>> Just for the record, while this may work for media, it won't work for all
>>> subsystems.  One will quickly get a complaint that the big patch needs to
>>> go into multiple trees.
>>
>> For the record: this only applies to drivers/media.
> 
> Interesting …
> 
> 
>> We discussed what do to with series like this during our media summit last Friday
> 
> Would you like to share any more information from this meeting?

??? I did that: either one patch per directory with the same type of change,
or one patch per driver combining all the changes for that driver.

> 
> 
>> and this was the conclusion of that.
> 
> I would appreciate further indications for a corresponding change acceptance.
> 
> I found a feedback by Mauro Carvalho Chehab more constructive.
> 
> [GIT,PULL,FOR,v4.15] Cleanup fixes
> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/43957/
> 
> “…
> This time, I was nice and I took some time doing:
> 
> 	$ quilt fold < `quilt next` && quilt delete `quilt next`
> …”

Yes, and you were told not to do it like that again.

Regards,

	Hans