Re: [PATCH v7 00/17] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1

Jason Cooper
2015-01-15T20:52:07Z

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:31:59PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 03:04:37PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:02:20PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Just changing the subject lines to be more suitable would help, but
> given the painful thread it's probably worth going the extra step if
> the lack of these reviews is a causing problems - I know that even with
> a suitable subject line if I'm busy then I'm fairly likely to zone out
> something in the middle a big series that doesn't seem to be going
> anywhere.

True, I was merely expressing a preference. A lot of series containing
irqchip changes tend to have build dependencies outside of
drivers/irqchip. So I like to see the whole picture to decide how best
to handle the patches.

I suppose the ideal solution would be to have a "mute sub-thread" option
in the MUA. But that doesn't help us today. :)

Whichever way they do it is fine by me.

thx,

Jason.