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On 6/16/2020 10:25 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:15:15AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 6/16/2020 10:07 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Please do not submit new versions of already applied patches, please
>>> submit incremental updates to the existing code.  Modifying existing
>>> commits creates problems for other users building on top of those
>>> commits so it's best practice to only change pubished git commits if
>>> absolutely essential.
> 
>> In Alvaro's defense, you applied the patches despite me requesting that
>> specific changes be made (use the optional reset control API variant).
> 
> I applied only the two patches that you'd acked, not the reset patches
> which had problems.

Indeed, sorry for not reading your commit message properly, I believe I
request that before, cannot the "applied" response just reply with the
patches *applied* and not *all* part of the series?

> 
>> Having a FAQ entry about what your expectations as a subsystem
>> maintainer are (ala netdev-FAQ.rst) could save you time along the way.
> 
> Incremental updates are the default AFAICT?
> 

It really depends if the maintainer is willing to rewrite his tree
history, some people do, some people do not, especially if nothing has
been submitted to Linus yet.
-- 
Florian