Re: [Qemu-devel] posting patches in pull requests (was Re: [PATCH 08/29] cpu: Add qemu_for_each_cpu())

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 2 May 2013 14:51, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>> As it is, patchwork is full of patches that were already reviewed and
>> merged, all my scripts that were filtering and sorting patches are also
>> useless, and I get to wade through each patch for the second time.
>
> You need to fix patchwork to have some conception of a
> patch series. Then you can just select the whole series
> which is the pull request and say "ignore this" and you're
> done. Any patch-handling tool that doesn't let you operate
> at the level of a complete series is always going to mean
> you're doing huge amounts of busywork sometimes.

patches solves this problem.  It just requires someone to write a bridge
that updates patchwork based on the information that patches mines.

> I don't particularly object to suggesting that pullreq
> patches are all tagged 'PULL'; I don't think it's very
> likely that you'll get 100% consistency out of everybody
> though.

Ack.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM