Re: [Qemu-devel] Delaying -rc0?

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:14:21AM +0900, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 4 March 2015 at 00:07, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > In the mean time this series depends on Igor's ACPI dynamic series that took
>> > a lot of time to review and even Michael's PULL request with it is not yet
>> > in master.
>> 
>> You can view this as an argument against enormous pull requests
>> with nearly a hundred patches in them -- they're much more likely
>> to hit multiple issues in submission with minor things that need
>> fixing, simply because of their size...
>> 
>> thanks
>> -- PMM
>
> Right. There were acpi changes by Igor and PCI changes by Markus,

The latter is my "[PATCH 00/10] pci: Partial conversion to realize".
Quite a few pending series depend on it.

> trying to merge them at once is what created this.
> I guess I could instead just do two unrelated pull requests
> that can be merged in parallel. Though in Marcel's case, the
> problems were all in Igor's patches and these are exactly
> the ones Marcel's code depends on.

If we can decouple the two, problems with one won't hold up the other
anymore.

I can do a pull request for just my series, if that helps.  But I'm
prepared to leave that coveted, glamorous and rewarding job to you ;)