Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:23:48 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP |
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On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > That's not how it works. It's helpful, more often than not, to submit > the entire set to each maintainer concerned so they can keep up with > the general conversation. By only sending specific patches to > maintainers you essentially blinker them to the bigger picture. > > As a maintainer you should _know_ that you can't apply patches from > other subsystems without appropriate Acks. I'm sure you'd take > exception to another maintainer who started accepting patches for > subsystems you are responsible for. This works both ways.
No you are mistaken. You should only put patches which have dependencies on each other in a series. If the patches can be applied independently of each other there is no need to have them in a single series.
Obviously if they can go into different trees then they cannot have dependencies.
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