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Any chance you could share that up front >> next time? 😉 > Hmm... I'm not sure how. If it's a cover letter, then it requires a series, > which seems an overkill, commenting on a single patch sounds a bit weird to > me. I honestly don't care how you do it. You could send all the patches in a series and ask the individual maintainers to pick them up individually. Or send cc all the maintainers and ask _one_ of them to pick up all of the patches. Or just mention in the changelog of the singleton patch that it's part of a (slightly) larger effort, then Link: over to the other related ones. Seriously, the only way to go wrong is to just pretend that this patch *is* a singleton when it's not.