From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [V3 PATCH 9/9] cxgb4vf: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (header compatibility fixes). Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:47:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120912.014746.636228439025755624.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1347374347-3852-10-git-send-email-naresh@chelsio.com> <20120911.133321.282568248903907762.davem@davemloft.net> <50501F1A.6040905@chelsio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: JBottomley@parallels.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dm@chelsio.com, leedom@chelsio.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, chethan@chelsio.com To: naresh@chelsio.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:52512 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754479Ab2ILFrv (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:47:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <50501F1A.6040905@chelsio.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Naresh Kumar Inna Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:05:22 +0530 > On 9/11/2012 11:03 PM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Naresh Kumar Inna >> 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 >> >> 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.