[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v7 0/3] fbdev fixes (reviewed)

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Nov 17 05:44:21 PST 2015


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 09:06:29AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de> wrote:
> >> For future reference, please consider posting new versions of series as
> >> new threads. This one got pretty messy in the end, with so many
> >> different versions.
> >
> > Daniel asked me to submit a patch "in-reply the previous version" in
> > <20150922091757.GZ3383 at phenom.ffwll.local> and I adhered to that request
> > also when sending a new version of an entire series. In that case I'll
> > *not* submit in-reply-to in the future, got that.
> 
> You'll probably get a different reply from everyone you ask. ;)
> 
> My rule of thumb is that if you update individual patches (whether in a
> series or not), send them in-reply to the previous version. Each patch
> in-reply to its preceding version in the series. If you update more than
> about half the patches in a series, it's perhaps less confusing to send
> a new series with no in-reply-to. (Oh, and this contradicts with the
> example in git send-email man page.)

I have the same rule-of-thumb, but probably failed to convey it clearly.
Sorry for the confusion.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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