On 12/08/2018 12:11 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> This actually is an individual patch, it doesn't depend on anything. >> Or do you mean a series with the DT documentation change ? > > Yes, i mean together with the DT documentation change. Those two > belong together, they are one functional change.
Fine > Part of this is also to do with scalability. It takes less effort to > merge one patchset of two patches, as two individual patches. The > truth is, developer time is cheap, maintainer time is expensive This is _not_ fine and I am actually offended by this statement. The way I read this is that maintainer time has more value than developer time, which justifies spending the developer time by maintainers without having any appreciation for it. I hope I am misreading your statement ? >, so > the process is optimized towards making the maintainers life easy. > > So sometimes you do combine orthogonal changes together into one > patchset, if there is a high purpose, eg. adding support for a new > device on a new board. However, given the situation of two overlapping > patchsets, it might be better to submit smaller patchsets. > > Andrew > -- Best regards, Marek Vasut
