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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 00/17] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1
    On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:02:20PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
    > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 06:23:47PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
    > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
    >
    > > > I'll get right to the point: Can we please have this series queued up
    > > > for v3.20?
    >
    > > Before you even ask for this, please look at the patches and realise
    > > that there is a complete lack of Reviewed-by tags on the code (well,
    > > apart from trivial Kconfig changes). In addition, the series touches on
    > > other subsystems like clocksource, irqchip, acpi and I don't see any
    > > acks from the corresponding maintainers. So even if I wanted to merge
    > > the series, there is no way it can be done without additional
    > > reviews/acks. On the document (last patch), I'd like to see a statement
    >
    > There's probably a bit of a process problem here - these patches are all
    > being posted as part of big and apparently controversial threads with
    > subject lines in the form "ARM / ACPI:" so people could be forgiven for
    > just not even reading the e-mails enough to notice changes to their
    > subsystems. Is it worth posting those patches separately more directly
    > to the relevant maintainers?

    I think it's beneficial to post the entire series as one thread, but to
    change the subject line of each patch to adequately reflect the affected
    subsystem.

    thx,

    Jason.


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