Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: Move Hyper-V clock/timer code to separate clocksource driver

From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Mar 12 2019 - 17:46:56 EST


On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:42:09PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> This patch series moves Hyper-V clock/timer code to a separate Hyper-V
> clocksource driver. Previously, Hyper-V clock/timer code and data
> structures were mixed in with other Hyper-V code in the ISA independent
> drivers/hv code as well as in arch dependent code. The new Hyper-V
> clocksource driver is ISA independent, with a just few dependencies on
> arch specific functions. The patch series does not change any behavior
> or functionality -- it only reorganizes the existing code and fixes up
> the linkages. A few places outside of Hyper-V code are fixed up to use
> the new #include file structure.
>
> This restructuring is in response to Marc Zyngier's review comments
> on supporting Hyper-V running on ARM64, and is a good idea in general.
> It increases the amount of code shared between the x86 and ARM64
> architectures, and reduces the size of the new code for supporting
> Hyper-V on ARM64. A new version of the Hyper-V on ARM64 patches will
> follow once this clocksource restructuring is accepted.
>
> The code is currently diff'ed against Linux 5.0. I'll rebase
> to linux-next once 5.1-rc1 is available.
>
> Michael Kelley (2):
> Drivers: hv: Move Hyper-V clockevents code to new clocksource driver
> Drivers: hv: Move Hyper-V clocksource code to new clocksource driver

You have two different patches that do different things, yet have the
same identical shortlog text :(

That's not ok, and something that I reject for trivial patches, it
should never happen for a "real" patch as you don't do the same thing in
both of these patches.

thanks,

greg k-h