RE: [PATCHv1 000/211] unicore32 architecture support

Thomas Gleixner
2010-12-13T09:51:34Z

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Guan Xuetao wrote:

> > > > > These patches add support for UniCore-32 ISA in linux kernel.
> > > > > UniCore ISA is defined and developed by Micro-Processor R&D Center of
> > > > > Peking University, and over the years, the CPUs and SoCs using UniCore ISA
> > > > > have been successfully applied in a variety of products in China.
> > > >
> > > > Could we at least have these 212 emails threaded at least below this
> > > > email ... for those of us who may be tempted to skip a full review with
> > > > a thread delete?
> >
> > Please don't drop cc's ... someone else may be wondering the same thing
> > so keeping the archive preserves the searchable knowledge.
> Ok, I see.
>
> > > What's meaning for '212 email threaded below this email'?
> >
> > Your subject [PATCHv1 000/211] means there are 211 patches plus a
> > description in the set ... that means 212 emails. If you thread them
> > all below the 000/211 email, it's far easier to handle.
> The rule in Documentations/SubmittingPatches:
> Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger mailing lists!
> So, I suppose I could post 15 patches every two or three days.

As Arnd and myself said before, having less but larger patches which
group the files into topics is a far better solution than sending 200+
patches which touch single files.

Thanks,

tglx