Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 07:54:27 EST




On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:45:24PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 20:35 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > [1/1] regmap: debugfs: use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements
> > > commit: 7f4a122d0b50b40c64d24a5cf7aafe26dd9487ee
>
> > Rather than replying to the 0/n cover letter to a patch
> > series, can you reply to each of the specific patches in
> > the patch series you are applying?
>
> > Otherwise, it's a bit difficult to figure out which patches
> > you are applying.
>
> Feel free to submit patches to b4. Ideally things like this wouldn't be
> being sent as serieses in the first place, there's no dependencies or
> interactions between the patches.

It was suggested (a long time ago, not with respect to this patch in
particular) that sending such patches in a series is useful because it
allows people who are not interested in the 18 patches to skip over them
more easily. So there are two conflicting needs...

julia