[PATCH 0/8] staging: most: fix hdm-usb issues

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Aug 19 08:14:22 UTC 2016


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:55:33AM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:18:56 +0200
> Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 04:10:26PM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> > > This patch set is needed to fix issues of the hdm-usb module.
> > 
> > You sent me 2 patch series for this same driver right now.  One 9
> > patches and one 8 patches.
> > 
> > Which go first?  Why 2 different sets?  What am I supposed to do, guess?
> >
> I thouhgt the different patch series are going to be applied in the
> chronological order like they hit your inbox. Doesn't the date *when* a
> certain patch set s'been received mean anything?

Nope, never trust email timestamps, they are always wrong, that's why we
number patches.  email can get stored on servers and delayed for random
amounts of time, it's part of the protocol :)

> The two sets result from our internal development progress. Not every update
> on the driver gets immediately pushed upstream. That's why I ended up with two
> sets for a single module. 

That's fine, but please put them in a single set.

thanks,

greg k-h


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