Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751505AbdFFOUW (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:20:22 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53874 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751431AbdFFOUU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:20:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:20:14 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Laurentiu Tudor Cc: "stuyoder@gmail.com" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "agraf@suse.de" , "arnd@arndb.de" , Ioana Ciornei , Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu , Bharat Bhushan , Catalin Horghidan , Leo Li , Roy Pledge , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Thomas Gleixner , Jason Cooper , Marc Zyngier Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] staging: fsl-mc: move bus driver out of staging Message-ID: <20170606142014.GA19404@kroah.com> References: <20170531105852.22304-1-laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com> <20170531105852.22304-11-laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com> <20170603084027.GA10784@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1517 Lines: 35 On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:03:44PM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org] > > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 11:40 AM > > > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 01:58:52PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com wrote: > > > From: Stuart Yoder > > > > Your subject says 'v4' yet the other patches here in the series do not, they say > > nothing, or 'v2', and the 0/10 patch says 'v6'! > > I'm tracking the patch versions individually and use the cover letter version (v6 currently) > to reflect the version of the patch series as a whole. There are a bunch of patches that are either newly > introduced in this series or didn't had multiple versions so I didn't tagged them with a version tag. > The patch [10/10] didn't changed since v4 so I left the version unchanged. The only change was in patch [07/10] > for which I added a commit message so I bumped the version to v2. And that's totally crazy. What do you expect me, or anyone else, to know what to do with that. Heck, I can't even sort them by proper order in which to apply them in, if I wanted to. You are keeping me from actually using your work :( > > Please fix up and do this correctly. The _whole_ patch series is versioned, > > otherwise how can I sort them to apply them in the correct order? > > Want me to tag all the patches with the same version (that is, v7 for > the next respin)? Yes, like everyone else does please :) thanks, greg k-h