linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: Move Hyper-V clock/timer code to separate clocksource driver

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Message-ID: <20190312214652.GA15914@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:46:52 -0700
From:   "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "will.deacon@....com" <will.deacon@....com>,
        "marc.zyngier@....com" <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
        "apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>,
        vkuznets <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "marcelo.cerri@...onical.com" <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>,
        Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@...rosoft.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        "catalin.marinas@....com" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: Move Hyper-V clock/timer code to
 separate clocksource driver

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:42:09PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> This patch series moves Hyper-V clock/timer code to a separate Hyper-V
> clocksource driver. Previously, Hyper-V clock/timer code and data
> structures were mixed in with other Hyper-V code in the ISA independent
> drivers/hv code as well as in arch dependent code. The new Hyper-V
> clocksource driver is ISA independent, with a just few dependencies on
> arch specific functions. The patch series does not change any behavior
> or functionality -- it only reorganizes the existing code and fixes up
> the linkages. A few places outside of Hyper-V code are fixed up to use
> the new #include file structure.
> 
> This restructuring is in response to Marc Zyngier's review comments
> on supporting Hyper-V running on ARM64, and is a good idea in general.
> It increases the amount of code shared between the x86 and ARM64
> architectures, and reduces the size of the new code for supporting
> Hyper-V on ARM64. A new version of the Hyper-V on ARM64 patches will
> follow once this clocksource restructuring is accepted.
> 
> The code is currently diff'ed against Linux 5.0.  I'll rebase
> to linux-next once 5.1-rc1 is available.
> 
> Michael Kelley (2):
>   Drivers: hv: Move Hyper-V clockevents code to new clocksource driver
>   Drivers: hv: Move Hyper-V clocksource code to new clocksource driver

You have two different patches that do different things, yet have the
same identical shortlog text :(

That's not ok, and something that I reject for trivial patches, it
should never happen for a "real" patch as you don't do the same thing in
both of these patches.

thanks,

greg k-h