[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/29] Rework MPC512x Support

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kim Phillips,

In message <20090512150139.a110609b.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> there seem to be recurring themes among these patches - this
> patchseries would be better grouped into theme based content instead of
> on a file by file basis.  Eg., Removal of mpc512x.h shouldn't need 10
> "prepare to remove" patches - it should be a single patch that removes
> all #include references, plus the file removal itself.

You are right, there should be just a single patch.  But  that  patch
would  be  big,  and  if  it  later turns out that I missed something
during my testing, it will be a nightmare to debug.

Been there before. I already had such a patch  stack,  which  I  then
collapsed  into  a small number of handy commits. Until it turned out
that there was a nasty bug somewhere.  And  there  is  no  "unsquash"
option  to  "git-besect  -i" yet ;-) In the end, I had to restore the
previous version from backup tape.

I really thought about this, and I came to the conclusion that it's
better to keep the commits separate, step by step.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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