[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 2/6] ASoC: ux500: Do not clear state if already idle

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 08 May 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:39:14AM +0200, Fabio Baltieri wrote:
> > As enable_msp gets called only after some audio data has been received,
> > if the userspace closes the device before sending any data it causes
> > ux500_msp_i2s_close to clear device state even if it was not previously
> > initialized.
> 
> Ugh, please don't do stuff like this - you're posting an individual
> revision of a patch buried in the middle of a thread.  This just makes
> things hard to follow and error prone.  Repost the patch series

It's so much more convenient to do it this way. Re-sending entire
patch-sets for small fixups is clumsy and annoying at best. Creating
much more churn than is actually required. Sending patches again
signally i.e. not as a reply to the original [PATCH x/x], would be
even more prone to error.

Personally, I like to get the niggles and fixups out of the way using
this method, then send the entire patch-set again, complete with all
of the reaped Acks once there are significant fixes or when I believe
it to be finished and ready for applying.

Surely most people have their mail setup as threaded? Then the
time-line and subsequent patch versions are very easy to follow aren't
they? I get a nice trace like this:

> <date> Fabio Baltieri    (  0) ├>[PATCH 2/6] ASoC: ux500: <snip>
> <date> To Fabio Baltieri (  0) │└>
> <date> Fabio Baltieri    (  0) │ └>[PATCH v2 2/6] ASoC:   <snip>

... or even better would be to reply to the original one, then
subsequent versions won't be "buried in the thread" per say:

> <date> Fabio Baltieri    (  0) ├>[PATCH 2/6] ASoC: ux500: <snip>
> <date> Fabio Baltieri    (  0) │ └>[PATCH v2 2/6] ASoC:   <snip>
> <date> To Fabio Baltieri (  0) │->

> or wait until what can be applied is applied then repost.

Taking patches out-of-order, or 'willy-nilly', is asking for trouble.

-- 
Lee Jones
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