On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 12:43:13PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

On Sat, 2020-10-03 at 15:31 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

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I'm worried that this can get unwieldy for series of 50 patches where 49 
got applied. Would the following be better:

...

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A subset of these patches was applied to

  https://...

Thanks!

[5/18] regmap: debugfs:
       commit:

It's definitely an improvement but TBH I'm not sure how much it's going
to help those struggling to parse the current messages.

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I think this is a better solution than potentially flooding everyone 
with 49 emails.

I would tend to prefer cutting down on mail volume but I don't think
there's any way to keep everyone happy with this stuff.

I think it would be better to reply individually as
the likelihood that the maintainer skips just a few
patches of a large series is relatively low.

It's not at all unusual for driver updates to both add new DT bindings
(either for entirely new drivers or new properties/compatibles for
existing drivers) and also have DTS file updates using those bindings,
these go via separate trees.