On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 05:31:25PM +0200, Laurentiu Palcu wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 03:14:35PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:57:04PM +0200, Laurentiu Palcu wrote: > > > The other patch in this series was already applied by Lee on > > > for-mfd-next branch: > > What this means is that the series you're sending actually contains one > > patch, not two. The point of numbering patches within a series is so > > people can tell what order to apply them in, nothing else. Things can > > be lumped together and split during the upstreaming process, the only > > thing that matterrs is what you're sending at a given time. > The order of the patches in this series can be interchanged. However, if > you wish, I can resend the entire series again. No, please don't - you're missing the point. The point is that now Lee has applied the other patch you're not sending two patches any more, you're sending a single patch. This isn't patch 1/2, it's just a single patch by itself now.