Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/24] ACPI reorganization for hardware-reduced API addition

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 20/11/18 13:57, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:14:26 +0100
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 19/11/18 16:31, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>>> I've tried to give suggestions how to restructure series
>>> on per patch basis. In my opinion it quite possible to split
>>> series in several smaller ones and it should really help with
>>> making series cleaner and easier/faster to review/amend/merge
>>> vs what we have in v5.  
>>
>> This is true, on the other hand the series makes sense together and,
>> even if the patches are more or less independent, they also all follow
>> the same "plan".  For reviewing v6, are you aware of Patchew's series
>> diff functionality?  It can tell you which patches had comments in v5,
>> reorder patches if applicable, and display deleted and new patches at
>> the right point in the series.
> Thanks, I'll give it a try.
> 
> Suggestion to split series mostly comes from contributor's point of view,
> it much easier to amend small series than a larger one.

That's true, on the other hand rules exist to have exceptions. :)  IIRC
your AML builder patch was also a huge series, this is not very different.

Paolo