Re: b4 review available in master

Mark Brown
2026-03-12T17:35:16Z

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On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 01:21:21PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 12:42:26PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > I'll push back on this a little simply because there's a lot that is keyed off
> > > the number of patches in the series. If we cherry-pick before we even review,
> > > this makes a lot of other functionality fragile. However, there is code now to
> > > mark patches as "skip" (with x) -- this should let you completely ignore them.
> > > When we "take" a series with ignored patches we will automatically default to
> > > the cherry-pick strategy and pre-unselect the ignored patches. Would that come
> > > kinda close to what you want?

> > Possibly? I'd need to try it. Some of these serieses are quite large
> > so even finding the relevant mails can be annoying.

> Let me know if that's not sufficient. We can also give a way to hide skipped
> patches so they aren't even in the picture.

Having used this a bit I think for larger serieses hiding would be very
useful, and it would be useful to still be able to do a merge even with
skipped patches (common case is some DTS patches at the end of a series
which are basically unrelated to the main series).

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