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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:55:49 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 08:43:47AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 3/5/24 08:36, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> Ahh, thanks for the context.  Any chance you could share that up front
> >> next time? ????
> > Hmm... I'm not sure how. If it's a cover letter, then it requires a series,
> > which seems an overkill, commenting on a single patch sounds a bit weird to
> > me.
> 
> I honestly don't care how you do it.  You could send all the patches in
> a series and ask the individual maintainers to pick them up
> individually.  Or send cc all the maintainers and ask _one_ of them to
> pick up all of the patches.  Or just mention in the changelog of the
> singleton patch that it's part of a (slightly) larger effort, then Link:
> over to the other related ones.

Got it.

> Seriously, the only way to go wrong is to just pretend that this patch
> *is* a singleton when it's not.

But technically speaking it is completely independent. TBH it is the _first_
time I ever got such a request from a maintainer. But okay, sending in a series
to be picked up separately sounds like in use: I have heard about such series
more than once.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko