From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759803AbWLDFDz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:03:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759811AbWLDFDz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:03:55 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:43702 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759803AbWLDFDz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:03:55 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:03:40 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Corey Minyard Cc: Linux Kernel , OpenIPMI Developers , Joseph Barnett Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff Message-Id: <20061203210340.9292061d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <45738959.1000209@acm.org> References: <20061202043746.GE30531@localdomain> <20061203132618.d7d58f59.akpm@osdl.org> <45738959.1000209@acm.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:35:05 -0600 Corey Minyard wrote: > Do you prefer patches to fold into the existing patches or new versions? Incremental updates are preferred where it makes sense, please. That way we can see what changed. I often will convert updated patches into incremental patches just to see what happened. I've caught bugs that way..