Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67;
Subject: Re: mfd: Patch management?
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        =?UTF-8?Q?Lars_P=c3=b6schel?= <poeschel@lemonage.de>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
References: <9c50fe6a-21cc-e49d-1b10-5d2457ed4e2a@users.sourceforge.net>
 <20180123125851.ysypf7375sjlgsc6@dell> <20180123130130.powyttapsx3djawx@dell>
 <f8900a77-eea4-d244-37e1-44d22484f826@users.sourceforge.net>
 <20180123151419.prwq62c7gpsnpbx3@dell>
 <ef7a4d25-d4f1-77e3-5489-bbc385de3e5d@users.sourceforge.net>
 <20180123163130.h6ygmzig7syafxbh@dell>
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <4b525322-424d-328b-a348-626a26da8f61@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:49:59 +0100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/52.5.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <20180123163130.h6ygmzig7syafxbh@dell>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Language: en-GB
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk

> What I should do really is ask you to take all similar (remove error
> message, don't use sizeof(struct X), remove '== NULL') changes and
> squash them into single patches.

I would try such an approach more often if I would get also more
promising indications of corresponding change acceptance besides
other software development “surprises”.


> However, I realise that you might want the "upstream creds",
> so I won't do that

I find this view interesting somehow.


> -- but not at the expense of my time/effort.
> 
> The two choices are to squash or to create a set.

This information triggers recurring difficulties around differences
in the preferred patch granularity.

Regards,
Markus