netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net 0/5] sctp: some fixes of prsctp polices

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Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:44:06 -0300
From:   marcelo.leitner@...il.com
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     lucien.xin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, vyasevich@...il.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net 0/5] sctp: some fixes of prsctp polices

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:17:16AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 20:35:40 +0800
> 
> >>
> >>> This patchset is to improve some codes about prsctp polices, and also
> >>> to fix some issues.
> >>>
> >>> v1->v2:
> >>>   - wrap the check of chunk->sent_count in a macro:
> >>>     sctp_chunk_retransmitted in patch 2/5.
> >>
> >> This series is a mix of bug fixes (patch #1) which should be targetting
> >> 'net' and simplifications/cleanups (patch #2-5) which should be targetting
> >> 'net-next'.
> >>
> >> Please do not mix things up like this, and submit patches targetting
> >> the appropriate tree.
> >>
> > understand, I wanted to divide them.
> > but this patchset is special, the following patches
> > depend on patch 1/5.
> 
> That doesn't matter.  This happens all the time.
> 
> The way you handle this is you submit patch #1 targetting 'net' and
> wait for it to get into 'net' and propagate into 'net-next'.  When
> that happens you can submit patches #2-5 as a second patch series
> targetting 'net-next'.

Thanks for your patience for explaining this, David, appreciated.

  Marcelo