linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] lib: add crc64 calculation routines

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Message-Id: <20180725142246.23e354fcc21ef041bb3f87e6@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:22:46 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Michael Lyle <mlyle@...e.org>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] lib: add crc64 calculation routines

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:37:23 +0800 Coly Li <colyli@...e.de> wrote:

> > IIUC this series in Andrew's quilt. So, it's still possible to replace
> > it with better one, I suppose. Ask Andrew (at least I remember recent
> > case where he just replaced series by fixed one).
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> It seems there should be some fix/update for this series. I see current
> series is in linux-next for now. If I want to add the fix, should I post
> a new version of the series, or the incremental patches to fix current
> series ?

mm...  it sounds like the changes will be large, so probably a new
series would be better at this early stage.  If the changes are small
then little fixup patches would be nicer to the people who have already
reviewed v1.