[PATCH 0/6] ASoC: a few cleanups on sound/soc/fsl
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at linaro.org
Fri Feb 24 19:06:28 EST 2012
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:23:29PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:21:51AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:23:45PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:02:01PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Please don't post new threads as followups to old threads, it makes
> > > > > things harder to follow in threaded mail readers.
> > >
> > > > I did that because they are a big series, though some of the patches
> > > > can be standalone.
> > >
> > > That doesn't seem to be related to my point? I'm asking you to not
> > > reply to an old version of your patch series in order to post a new
> > > version of it, just post the new version.
> >
> > This is the first version of this series.
>
> Your covering message for this series of six patches:
>
> From: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> To: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> Subject: [PATCH 0/6] ASoC: a few cleanups on sound/soc/fsl
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:09:35 +0800
> Message-Id: <1330092582-21180-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.5.4
> In-Reply-To: <1329979644-31046-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> References: <1329979644-31046-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Your patch 1 from a previous series:
>
> From: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> To: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] ASoC: imx: let SND_MXC_SOC_FIQ select FIQ
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:47:21 +0800
> Message-Id: <1329979644-31046-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Notice the same message ids. That means your covering letter with
> subject "[PATCH 0/6] ASoC: a few cleanups on sound/soc/fsl" is a reply
> to your "[PATCH 1/4] ASoC: imx: let SND_MXC_SOC_FIQ select FIQ" message.
>
> Consequently anyone who reads list mail by threads gets your new series
> of six patches attached to your previous series of four patches. That
> can be extremely annoying, especially when it ends up being buried in
> peoples mailboxes as a direct result of threaded sorting - and it's
> a recipe for your patches to be ignored.
Sorry about that. But they are not separate patch series but belong
to one big series. It seems it's a bad idea to post one big series
in such a way. Will stop doing it.
--
Regards,
Shawn
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