Re: b4 review workflow issue with partially accepted serieses

Mark Brown <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:25:12 +0100

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 09:46:25AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> OK, to help me properly model the workflow, is there ever a situation in which
> you would:

> - accept patches 1-3 from v1
> - request changes for patches 4-5
> - wait for v2 with those changes
> - apply patches 4-5 from v2

> In my mind, this was always a "send a follow-up series with just those 2
> patches" -- should we even support the workflow as described above?

Yes, that's a thing that happens - usually in that case the early
patches are bugfixes related to the work done to enable some new feature
that is the main thrust of the series.  You can ask people to split
things out and model it as two separate serieses but that's a bit of
faff for something that's broadly a tooling issue.

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