linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/30] nvme: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2211020804180.3225@hadrien>
Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2022 08:05:32 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/30] nvme: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()



On Wed, 2 Nov 2022, Christophe JAILLET wrote:

> Le 02/11/2022 à 07:47, Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
> > What are th other 29 patches doing in this series?  Due to the lack of
> > context individual patches from series have to through /dev/null here,
> > sorry.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> in each patch, in order to give some context, I wrote:
>    ---
>    This patch is part of a serie that axes all usages of strtobool().
>    Each patch can be applied independently from the other ones.
>
>    The last patch of the serie removes the definition of strtobool().
>
>    You may not be in copy of the cover letter. So, if needed, it is
>    available at [1].
>
>    [1]:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1667336095.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr/
>
>
> What is the best strategy for sending such patches?

I send the cover letter to everyone.  The problem with sending individual
unconnected patches is that people who are looking at the patches on
generic mailing lists can't easily see that they should just skip over all
of them at once.  But it is hard to please everyone for this issue...

julia

>
> Should I send only individual patches?
> Should everybody be in copy of all patches? Or at least of the cover letter?
>
>
> Some patches have already been Acked or even applied. So I'll wait a bit so
> that things stabilize before resending what is remaining.
>
> CJ
>