RE: [PATCH v9 0/1] virtio-media: Add device specification

> From: Albert Esteve <[email protected]>
> Sent: 09 July 2025 03:31 PM
> 
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM Parav Pandit <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > From: Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: 09 July 2025 03:14 PM
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 11:34:55AM +0200, Albert Esteve wrote:
> > > > New attempt of including virtio-media device specification.
> > > >
> > > > v8->v9:
> > > > - Rebased to virtio-1.4
> > >
> > > I wonder if it wouldn't be better to just send a patch that fixes
> > > the series instead of the whole series again. Such a change would be
> > > a non editorial change thus not requiring to vote again. The v8 has
> > > been already voted and accepted.
> > >
> > > Matias
> > >
> >
> > Right. I was able to apply v9 without merge conflict.
> > Even though, I prefer what Matias suggested to send the fixup patch so that
> v9 does not need to go through the review and vote again.
> 
> I'm ok with that. I assumed that as it had no changes from v8 whatsoever, it
> would not require a vote. If it does, let's disregard this new version.
> 
If its editorial change, it does not require a vote.

> What do you mean for a fixup patch? New patch series with just the
> changeset required to eliminate the conflict from v8?
> 
I was looking for something that I apply locally to resolve the merge conflict myself.
That way, its basically just v8 + fixup.

So basically a short diff that you did manually, which I can also do before merging it.