Re: Adjustments for a lot of function implementations

[Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>]

On 10/30/2017 11:40 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>>>>> Feel free to repost, but only if you organize the patch as either fixing the same type of
>>>>> issue for a whole subdirectory (media/usb, media/pci, etc)
>>>
>>> Just for the record, while this may work for media, it won't work for all
>>> subsystems.  One will quickly get a complaint that the big patch needs to
>>> go into multiple trees.
>>
>> For the record: this only applies to drivers/media.
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> Interesting …
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>> We discussed what do to with series like this during our media summit last Friday
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> Would you like to share any more information from this meeting?

??? I did that: either one patch per directory with the same type of change,
or one patch per driver combining all the changes for that driver.

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>> and this was the conclusion of that.
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> I would appreciate further indications for a corresponding change acceptance.
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> I found a feedback by Mauro Carvalho Chehab more constructive.
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> [GIT,PULL,FOR,v4.15] Cleanup fixes
> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/43957/
> 
> “…
> This time, I was nice and I took some time doing:
> 
> 	$ quilt fold < `quilt next` && quilt delete `quilt next`
> …”

Yes, and you were told not to do it like that again.

Regards,

	Hans