netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] net: hns3: add some bugfixes and optimizations

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Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 08:57:55 +0800
From:   tanhuazhong <tanhuazhong@...wei.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
CC:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] net: hns3: add some bugfixes and
 optimizations



On 2019/10/17 23:47, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:27:09 +0800, tanhuazhong wrote:
>> On 2019/10/17 1:50, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:19:43 -0700
>>>    
>>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:16:59 +0800, Huazhong Tan wrote:
>>>>> This patch-set includes some bugfixes and code optimizations
>>>>> for the HNS3 ethernet controller driver.
>>>>
>>>> The code LGTM, mostly, but it certainly seems like patches 2, 3 and 4
>>>> should be a separate series targeting the net tree :(
>>>
>>> Agreed, there are legitimate bug fixes.
>>>
>>> I have to say that I see this happening a lot, hns3 bug fixes targetting
>>> net-next in a larger series of cleanups and other kinds of changes.
>>>
>>> Please handle this delegation properly.  Send bug fixes as a series targetting
>>> 'net', and send everything else targetting 'net-next'.
>>>    
>>
>> Hi, David & Jakub.
>>
>> BTW, patch01 is a cleanup which is needed by patch02,
>> if patch01 targetting 'net-next', patch02 targetting 'net',
>> there will be a gap again. How should I deal with this case?
> 
> You'll need to reorder the cleanup so that the fixes apply to the
> unmodified net tree.
> 
> Then preferably wait for the net tree to be merged back to net-next
> before posting the cleanup that'd conflict.  If the conflict is not
> too hard to resolve you can just post the net-next patches and give
> some instructions on how to resolve the merge conflict under the ---
> lines in the commit message.
> 

ok, thanks.

> .
>