From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: me@felipebalbi.com
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/23] move twl4030-gpio to drivers/gpio
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:45:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809291346.00324.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080929201901.GF2445@frodo>
On Monday 29 September 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:06:19PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Monday 29 September 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > drivers/{i2c/chips => gpio}/twl4030-gpio.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >
> > Best to avoid sending this type of patch except as backup
> > to a git pull request ... it's unusable to folk who use
> > quilt and thus don't have access to GIT extensions.
> >
> > Where "unusable" means "can't apply the patch".
>
> The good thing with the git extensions for rename detection is that we
> really see what has changed when you renamed the file and that's what
> really matters, right ?
That's not all that matters, although I certainly liked being
able to see that specific diff and confirm "yes, that's the
stuff I had intended to change".
A more basic point of posting patches to lists is that they be
usable for testing. And the git rename stuff prevents that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-29 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1222707783-18936-1-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com>
[not found] ` <1222707783-18936-12-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com>
[not found] ` <1222707783-18936-13-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com>
2008-09-29 20:06 ` [PATCH 12/23] move twl4030-gpio to drivers/gpio David Brownell
2008-09-29 20:19 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-09-29 20:45 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-09-29 21:01 ` Felipe Balbi
[not found] ` <1222707783-18936-20-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com>
[not found] ` <1222707783-18936-21-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com>
2008-09-30 0:06 ` [PATCH 20/23] twl4030-gpio: irq and other cleanup David Brownell
2008-09-30 0:30 ` David Brownell
2008-09-30 0:39 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 2:36 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <1222707783-18936-22-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com>
2008-09-30 0:31 ` [PATCH 21/23] twl4030-core: portability updates David Brownell
2008-09-30 10:05 [PATCH 00/23] twl4030 patches (v4) Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 01/23] twl4030: fix potential null pointer dereference Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 02/23] twl4030-gpio: Remove default pullup enable/disable of GPIO Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 03/23] i2c: clean add_children a bit Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 04/23] i2c: move twl4030_keypad to new style registration Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 05/23] i2c: move twl4030-usb to platform_device Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 06/23] i2c: twl4030-usb: add 'vbus' sysfs file Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 07/23] twl4030 gpio platform data Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 08/23] twl4030 uses gpiolib Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 09/23] i2c: move twl4030-madc to new registration style Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 10/23] minor twl4030-core cleanups Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 11/23] provide detailed diagnostics in add_children() Felipe Balbi
2008-09-30 10:05 ` [PATCH 12/23] move twl4030-gpio to drivers/gpio Felipe Balbi
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