On 02/24/2012 04:41 AM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:27:33PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> [ Upstream commits:
>>
>>  a144c6a6c924aa1da04dd77fb84b89927354fdff
>>  caca9510ff4e5d842c0589110243d60927836222
>>
>>  squashed together into one.]
> 
> Why did you do that?


Because I thought it was better not to repeat the same mistakes that
we did in mainline.. That is, in mainline, we did something like:
patch 1 : fixed something but introduced a new bug
patch 2 : fixed bug introduced by patch 1

So I thought it was better to reduce the noise and just do the right
fix by squashing those 2 patches. IOW, replaying those patches
faithfully and repeating the same mistakes in stable seemed pretty
pointless to me...

> You just lost the authorship information from

> those two patches. 


No, I didn't! I squashed the Signed-off-by's and the Reviewed-by's etc
too, so no authorship info was lost :-)
(But I don't know if that is the right thing to do)

> Please keep them separate and provide backported
> versions (possibly not the whole thing, but the relevant parts).
> 

Everything is relevant, but just that we don't really need 4 patches
to do it.. Just 2 correct patches will do.

Please consider my above thoughts and if you still want me to provide
all the 4 patches, let me know and I'll do it.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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