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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:42:31 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] pci : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Patches should be self-contained for ease of bisecting.  I can't tell
> whether this patch is correct or not because you haven't included all
> the other places that need to change at the same time as this.

I think a broken-up patch series isn't totally wrong to do for a first
look at these RFC patches.  Of course the series needs to become a
single patch before it is committed to a tree whose history needs to
support bijection, e.g. -mm.

However, Dave's postings lack a References: header which refer to his
00/12 posting.

(Also, a bonus in the 00/12 posting would be a listing of all patch
titles in the series and the total diffstat of the series, but nearly
nobody does this.)
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Stefan Richter
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