From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D0753B38BF for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774280689; cv=none; b=lZR5lP+Xw4iQtfuZALUtL7QaiPxkRADnNpGEq2N50eugpAKCTev7gg+0zORu2yf/9U7RTBYTjH9cL02DYfCD+YmtTz6ChLgd6S6zwgfdlTVH/QX5tXZ6J/VKaYuCgNX45E/QL/ntDFnVeEl6SCUSACO6W/0RQa87j4GOjGgn8Fw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774280689; c=relaxed/simple; bh=EFxYFMzeF0WIMxXGImyMCxFD1U+heyfg/BjiX301hw4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=qHQ4l0NJwr2WOngtnw8SZOyLh1b4IeKW5+brP+/vK6ysc/3zoCczhkzLOfRkTzlILcbthCwFspmWuNOlaeqHxp23YSwWq30OHOamx03Uhe0qeCiUl2/DwtsCTT37/RKtnLHVcZfV+0p076bJ37jAsAt8F7XbWZZfEK9JRO1BstQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=ZFCj1Q67; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="ZFCj1Q67" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 3BBAEC2BCB0; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F03B5C4CEF7; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:44:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1774280689; bh=EFxYFMzeF0WIMxXGImyMCxFD1U+heyfg/BjiX301hw4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=ZFCj1Q67Xz46mluhJlmP1Eg/w9RYFTWCDjIK1Eel/nK4WemLVbfAEzkynKlCS7Xsw BLT07Uogv2Dmn1UWY6R9X4girunUD27gRbe3xGO1AtLN1rM47Ujsha1JHWF6dxA/ID jC+aPRf/juW8sFQ3dut3EOw8QpxJ+92lZzE6GHvM= Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:44:45 -0400 From: Konstantin Ryabitsev To: Mark Brown Cc: tools@kernel.org Subject: Re: Stitching together serieses Message-ID: <20260323-electric-fancy-crow-b7db3b@lemur> References: <8637ff61-4eca-42ac-96fb-d530498b3f82@sirena.org.uk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tools@linux.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline 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