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From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: tools@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stitching together serieses
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:44:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323-electric-fancy-crow-b7db3b@lemur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8637ff61-4eca-42ac-96fb-d530498b3f82@sirena.org.uk>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 02:07:13PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> When users send a patch series in a way that doesn't thread such as:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260323041505.2088-1-niranjan.hy@ti.com
>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260323041545.2101-1-niranjan.hy@ti.com
>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260323041624.2120-1-niranjan.hy@ti.com
>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260323041641.2133-1-niranjan.hy@ti.com
> 
> it would be useful if b4 review had a way for users to tell it that
> actually this is a series and please treat it as such.

I'll see what I can do, but on the first approach this is proving fragile,
because it's breaking a lot of assumptions we currently have about a series,
such as ability to retrieve it as a single thread to check for updates, etc.

bugspray tag b4/email

-- 
KR

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-23 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-23 14:07 Stitching together serieses Mark Brown
2026-03-23 14:09 ` Mark Brown
2026-03-23 15:44 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2026-03-23 19:02 ` B4 Bugbot
2026-03-23 20:58 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-03-23 20:59 ` B4 Bugbot

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