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On 28.11.22 23:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:18:47 +0100 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Less chances of things going wrong that way.
>>>
>>> Just mention in the v2 cover letter that the first patch was added to
>>> make it easy to backport that fix without being hampered by merge
>>> conflicts if it was added after your frame_vector.c patch.
>>
>> Yes, that's the way I would naturally do, it, however, Andrew prefers
>> delta updates for minor changes.
>>
>> @Andrew, whatever you prefer!
> 
> I'm inclined to let things sit as they are.  Cross-tree conflicts
> happen, and Linus handles them.  I'll flag this (very simple) conflict
> in the pull request, if MM merges second.  If v4l merges second then
> hopefully they will do the same.  But this one is so simple that Linus
> hardly needs our help.
> 
> But Linus won't be editing changelogs so that the changelog makes more
> sense after both trees are joined.  I'm inclined to let the changelog
> sit as it is as well.

Works for me. Thanks Andrew!

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb