[U-Boot] Patch submission process question

[Joe Hershberger]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 08/16/2011 02:06 AM, Simon Schwarz wrote:
>> On 08/16/2011 03:20 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
>>> Even a bit more generally, some of the series are getting quite long
>>> due to small dependencies.  This tends to put lots of unrelated
>>> content into the same series based on small dependencies.  How is this
>>> supposed to be dealt with?  Is it best to make long series or just to
>>> send part of it and wait for it to be integrated before sending the
>>> rest?
>> Hm, here U'am not really sure - I think I would send a complete series -
>> but this is best answered by a custodian.
>
> If it's getting very long (the threshold is obviously subjective), I'd
> do the "send part of it and wait" approach.  Especially if there are a
> lot of respins.

How about if a series largely doesn't change but has one or two
patches change or maybe one or two patches added to the end?  Is it
preferable to resend all of the patches in the series marked as a new
version or to only send the changed / added patches?

Thanks,
-Joe

(Sorry about the double send, Scott).