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

[Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/08/14 03:28, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > 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.
If this was not real close to the release date, I would not have added this 
information.  Clearly the way I wrote it is not the way it should be expressed. 
  Thanks for you help, I will try to do that ordering in the future.

   -Don Slutz


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