Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/59] 4.9.226-rc2 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 02:55:26 EST


On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > >FWIW, if we need/want to use unified assembler in v4.9.y, shouldn't all unified
> > >assembler patches be applied ?
> >
> > We don't - I took 71f8af111010 as a dependency rather than on its own
> > merit.
>
> Would it be possible to somehow mark patches that are "dependency"
> rather than "on their own"? It would make review easier...

That's a lot of extra work on our part, and would make the changelog
text change, which isn't always liked, sorry.

greg k-h