Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:03:36 -0400 | From | Tony Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/90] Post 2.6.21 OMAP update |
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* Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> [070405 12:32]: > > > It would be enormously helpful if instead we got say 15 small patch sets > > > which are independant so that a query or NAK means 14 sets get applied > > > this time around not zero. > > > > I was thinking about merging the patches together more, but the end result > > would not be very readable, and we would lose the original author info. > > > > Also trying to do this 15 small patches at time would make it hard > > to have it all integrated within the two week merge window. > > I think you misunderstood the suggestion. The idea is that you leave > the patches basically as-is (modulo any small tweaks required by > reordering), but rather than one 90-patch series, you divide the > patches up into independent subsets. Maybe something like > > - basic OMAP fixes for bugs in core support > - Palm platform stuff > - ...other platform stuff > - new features > > etc. then it's easier for people to review the stuff they're > interested in, and it's easier for at least some of the subsets to get > applied (which reduces your backlog).
Hmm, yeah I'll see if I could group them a bit. The problem there is that the patch series contains multiple rounds of "add and fix" cycles. Pretty much all the non-dependant fixes have already been applied, BTW.
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