Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: dsa: lan9303: Fixed MDIO interface

[Egil Hjelmeland]

On 26. juli 2017 16:30, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Hi Egil,
>
> Egil Hjelmeland <privat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > > I'd suggest you to split up this one commit in several *atomic* and easy
> > > to review patches and send them separately as on thread named "net: dsa:
> > > lan9303: fix MDIO interface" (also note that imperative is prefered for
> > > subject lines, see: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#imperative)
> >
> > I can split the first patch.
> >
> > I can also split the patch series to more digestible series. But
> > since most of the patches touches the same file, I assume that each
> > series must be completed and applied before starting on a new one.
> > So I really want to group the patches into only a few series in order
> > to not spend months on the process.
>
> I understand. But believe me, your patches are very likely to land
> mainline faster if you send them in small chunks. This might not be true
> for every subsystems, but netdev is very responsive. This is even more
> true since this series has no-no (such as the sysfs entries) which
> guarantees the whole patch series to be rejected.
>
> Sending portions of your local work branch then rebase it against
> net-next/master is a usual development process.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>          Vivien

Thank you for the advice. I got some other NMIs today that I have to
serve. Hope to come back with MDIO patch series soon.

Egil