Re: [Xen-devel] [BUGFIX][PATCH v2 0/5] gdbsx: fix 3 bugs

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 08.01.14 at 01:25, Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Release manager requests:
>   patch 1 and 3 are optional for 4.4.0.
>   patch 2 should be in 4.4.0
>   patch 4 and 5 would be good to be in 4.4.0

Which clearly shows that the series is badly ordered: You shouldn't
expect committers to know (or even have to guess) that applying
later patches without earlier ones is okay. I.e. if you think that
leaving out part of the series for 4.4 is fine, you should place the
required ones first, the optional ones second, and the 4.5 ones
last. Or, if the patches are in fact independent, another option
would be to not send the patches as a series in the first place.

Jan


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