[PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

Julia Lawall julia.lawall at inria.fr
Tue Sep 29 07:46:19 EDT 2020



On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:45:24PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 20:35 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > [1/1] regmap: debugfs: use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements
> > >       commit: 7f4a122d0b50b40c64d24a5cf7aafe26dd9487ee
>
> > Rather than replying to the 0/n cover letter to a patch
> > series, can you reply to each of the specific patches in
> > the patch series you are applying?
>
> > Otherwise, it's a bit difficult to figure out which patches
> > you are applying.
>
> Feel free to submit patches to b4.  Ideally things like this wouldn't be
> being sent as serieses in the first place, there's no dependencies or
> interactions between the patches.

It was suggested (a long time ago, not with respect to this patch in
particular) that sending such patches in a series is useful because it
allows people who are not interested in the 18 patches to skip over them
more easily.  So there are two conflicting needs...

julia



More information about the linux-amlogic mailing list