Re: [PATCHv3 3/9] serial: vt8500: Add devicetree support for

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On 08/22/2012 01:44 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Tony Prisk wrote:
>> The original patch was very simple, but I revisited it to fix other
>> issues and forgot to add the relevant comments.
>>
>> Port size is changed to fix a problem - WM8505 actually had 6 uart's
>> defined in platform data but the vt8500_ports variable was only 4.
>>
>> I have added devicetree port id support as well.
> 
> If you do multiple things in one driver, you should normally send multiple
> patches as well, each with a description why that change is done.
> It may seem silly at first to send out a one-line patch next to a 100-line
> patch for the same file, but those cases are actually the ones where it's
> most important.

Think of us poor git-bisect monkeys who have no idea why something broke
but can (purely mechanically) figure out which commit did it. If it's a
patch that does three unrelated things, we're kinda stuck.

Rob
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