Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: codecs: Enable AB8500 CODEC for Device Tree

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Aug 21 2012 - 09:40:17 EST


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:58:12PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The bit I quoted is the main example, you're including random mail
> > headers in the body of the mail.

> They're not mail headers per-say, they're `git format-patch` headers.
> I thought this was acceptable for single patches, hence why I've done
> it lots of times and had no complaints (until now).

> If there are some changes required in a single patch, I usually fix
> it up, create a patch with `git format-patch` and send it as a reply
> to either the original patch in the series or the mail containing the
> suggestion. If this is wrong please educate me as I thought this was

If you're going to do this send the patch properly in the same way
patches are normally sent. Take a step back and think about this for a
minute - why would it be a good idea to send these incremental patches
in a different format which requires the person applying the patch to
hand edit things to strip out the noise?

> acceptable, as I thought it would be less pain than sending the
> entire patch-set again for just one change?

It makes it harder to work out which versions of things to apply and
causes issues for tools when doing things like applying from a mailbox.

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