Re: [V3 PATCH 9/9] cxgb4vf: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (header compatibility fixes).

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Naresh Kumar Inna <naresh@chelsio.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:05:22 +0530

> On 9/11/2012 11:03 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Naresh Kumar Inna <naresh@chelsio.com>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:09:07 +0530
>> 
>>> This patch contains minor fixes to make cxgb4vf driver work with the updates to
>>> shared firmware/hardware header files.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Naresh Kumar Inna <naresh@chelsio.com>
>> 
>> You cannot submit a patch set that isn't bisectable, and in particular
>> create a situation that mid-way through your patch set things do not
>> build or operate correctly.
>> 
> 
> Sorry, I am new to this process. The reason I did that was because I was
> not sure if I could create a single patch with both cxgb4 and cxgb4vf
> files in it, since they are two different subsystems. If I could do
> that, the single patch then would build on its own, and not be dependent
> on the other patches in the series. Is that something I can do?

I don't know how else to say this, every step along the way the tree
has to build.  You arrange the patches however necessary to achieve
that goal.