linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] serial: sc16is7xx: fix GPIO regression and rs485 improvements

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Date:   Thu, 25 May 2023 16:37:17 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@...ovil.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org, conor+dt@...nel.org,
        jirislaby@...nel.org, jringle@...dpoint.com,
        tomasz.mon@...lingroup.com, l.perczak@...lintechnologies.com,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@...onoff.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] serial: sc16is7xx: fix GPIO regression and rs485 improvements

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 4:26 PM Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@...ovil.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2023 13:27:52 +0300
> andy.shevchenko@...il.com wrote:
> > Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:03:13AM -0400, Hugo Villeneuve kirjoitti:
> > > From: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@...onoff.com>
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > this patch series mainly fixes a GPIO regression and improve RS485 flags and properties
> > > detection from DT.
> > >
> > > It now also includes various small fixes and improvements that were previously
> > > sent as separate patches, but that made testing everything difficult.
> >
> > > Patches 1 and 2 are simple comments fix/improvements.
> >
> > Usually we put fixes at the beginning of the series, but these patches are
> > missing Fixed tag. Are they really fixes or can be simply moved to the end of
> > the series?
>
> these are not code fixes, they are comments improvements. I was not aware that you need to put a Fixes tag for correcting syntax errors in comments, or adding comments to improve clarity.
>
> I often submit such comments patches but was never asked to put a Fixes tag before. Seems strange to me...

In this case there are probably no conflicts, but the usual grouping
of patches is following
1) fixes that may be backported;
2) cleanups / refactoring /etc;
3) new features.
4) additional light-weit cleanups, such as whitespace cleaning (it's a
radical, we probably do not accept pure whitespace cleaning patches,
but you got the idea).

Seems patches 1 and 2 fall into category 4).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko