Re: [PATCH v3 21/23] regulator: dt-bindings: update samsung,s2mpa01.yaml reference

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Oct 20 2021 - 07:12:07 EST


On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:30:13AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> > For a case like this where there's no
> > dependencies or real relationship between the patches it's probably
> > better to just not thread everything and send the patches separately to
> > everyone, the threading is just adding noise and confusion.

> It is not that easy, unfortunately. On some cases (specially due to
> DT binding renames) some patches change the context of a hunk, affecting
> a subsequent patch.

If that's the case then the cover letter really needs work to make this
clear, I couldn't tell that there was any risk of dependencies nor would
I expect any for such trivial changes.

> I tried a couple of times in the past to send the patches individually,
> but that was messier, as there was harder for people to apply them,
> as, instead of running b4 just once to get everything, maintainers
> would need to apply each patch individually. Also, there were cases
> where the patch order would be relevant, due to context changes.

You could also send a per subsystem series if there's a concern about it
being hard to pick up individual patches.

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