From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753597AbbITBYG (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:24:06 -0400 Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:54299 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752962AbbITBYE (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:24:04 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:23:48 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Lee Jones Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Peter Korsgaard , Fabio Estevam , Kieran Bingham , "kernel@stlinux.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Message-ID: <20150920012347.GA21913@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1442497557-9271-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20150918140756.GK9249@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150918151137.GA10763@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150918155112.GE3218@x1> <20150918231213.GA14278@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150919092145.GG3218@x1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150919092145.GG3218@x1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > That's not how it works. It's helpful, more often than not, to submit > the entire set to each maintainer concerned so they can keep up with > the general conversation. By only sending specific patches to > maintainers you essentially blinker them to the bigger picture. > > As a maintainer you should _know_ that you can't apply patches from > other subsystems without appropriate Acks. I'm sure you'd take > exception to another maintainer who started accepting patches for > subsystems you are responsible for. This works both ways. No you are mistaken. You should only put patches which have dependencies on each other in a series. If the patches can be applied independently of each other there is no need to have them in a single series. Obviously if they can go into different trees then they cannot have dependencies. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt