linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 4/5] net/x25: fix restart request/confirm handling

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Message-ID: <458f89938c565b82fe30087fb33602b9@dev.tdt.de>
Date:   Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:27:17 +0100
From:   Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de>
To:     Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Linux X25 <linux-x25@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 4/5] net/x25: fix restart request/confirm
 handling

On 2020-12-09 23:11, Xie He wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:47 AM Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:41 AM Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Right.
>> > By the way: A "Restart Collision" is in practice a very common event to
>> > establish the Layer 3.
>> 
>> Oh, I see. Thanks!
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> When you submit future patch series, can you try ensuring the code to
> be in a completely working state after each patch in the series? This
> makes reviewing the patches easier. After the patches get applied,
> this also makes tracing bugs (for example, with "git bisect") through
> the commit history easier.

Well I thought that's what patch series are for:
Send patches that belong together and should be applied together.

Of course I will try to make each patch work on its own, but this is not
always possible with major changes or ends up in monster patches.
And nobody wants that.

Martin