Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934511Ab0HEWCM (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:02:12 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-1.cisco.com ([171.71.176.70]:48912 "EHLO sj-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934494Ab0HEWCK (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:02:10 -0400 Authentication-Results: sj-iport-1.cisco.com; dkim=neutral (message not signed) header.i=none X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAPTRWkyrR7Hu/2dsb2JhbACgP3GrdZsqhToEhCAn X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,324,1278288000"; d="scan'208";a="349700617" From: Roland Dreier To: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Best way to send several patches References: X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:02:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Bjarke Istrup Pedersen's message of "Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:54:09 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1314 Lines: 27 > The question is, should I just send them all to this mailinglist > (Section 3 of Documentation/SubmittingPatches - the one with the patch > bomb - suggest that this is a bad idea), or how should I do it? (I > have only submitted a single patch before, so I didn't have to worry > about that back then). I would suggest sending a small batch of patches (say, four or five at most) and see how that goes. That way, in case you make some mistake in formatting or something, you don't have to send another huge pile when you resend. Once your initial batch is accepted and you have the hang of submitting patches, then you can submit bigger batches. But I would recommend having each batch have a common theme. For example there was the recent series of 42 fixes for confusing if indentation -- a big batch of fixes for the same problem in different places, which is exactly the right way to do things. - Roland -- Roland Dreier || For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/