Re: [PATCH] regulator: Minor regulator documentation fixes.

From: Vaittinen, Matti
Date: Thu Aug 19 2021 - 07:55:35 EST



On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 12:43 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:06:48AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
>
> > I was thinking of that. I thought that it made less of a hassle
> > with
> > single patch. After all, both changes were doc updates - and I
> > didn't
> > think the typofix warranted backport or a Fixed tag.
> > Could you please educate me & explain why would you have preferred
> > two
> > patches? (I see you any ways applied this so I guess there's no
> > need to
> > split & resend - thanks).
>
> It's two changes that don't overlap in any way. Part of the reason
> for
> splitting patches up is that it reduces the cogantive load checking
> that
> the patch actually does the thing described in the changelog, with
> two
> changes in one patch you need to hold two things in your head at
> once.
> The more trivial the patch the bigger the extra effort relative to
> what
> they'd have taken otherwise.

Fair enough. Thanks for explanation.

--Matti