Re: [PATCH v4 00/57] x86/dumpstack: rewrite x86 stack dump code

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 10:41:37 EST


On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:31:36 -0500
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 03:39:35PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > Josh Poimboeuf (57):
> > >
> > > I am personally unable to review a 57 patches series.
> > >
> > > Any chance you could split it into self-contained steps? In general doing so
> > > increase the chances for reviews, accelerate merging, improve maintainance...
> >
> > Yes, please!
> >
> > Series of no more than 4-6 patches, ordered in a logical fasion from lowest risk /
> > simplest towards highest risk / most complex.
>
> You're right, that would be better. My apologies for spamming. It
> started with "only" 19 patches in v1 and then quickly got out of hand.
>
> I may split it up something like this:

This looks fine. My wife came down to complain to me that my tablet was
"popping" too much. (it pops for every email I get).

But don't send these all at once. Send one series out and focus on
that, then when that is all set, then work on the next series.

-- Steve