> I think the root of the problem is that your series didn't maintain > bisectability. > > IOW, each patch needs to be able to be applied one at a time such that > at each point, the build doesn't break and functionality doesn't break. > > Otherwise, tools like git bisect don't work.
This was true with the old, big FVD patches you reviewed. Following Christoph Hellwig's suggestion, the new series of FVD patches submitted last Friday, e.g., "FVD: Added the simulated 'blksim' driver", add individual smaller functions and breaks neither compilation nor execution.