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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:56:28AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > This practice causes to get out of context patches without ability to
> > see whole picture and the worse part that it divides feedback to
> > "islands" without ability to agree or disagree with the feedback.
> 
> Suppose you have a 60-patch series, with 56 in fs/*.c (and related headers
> in include/linux) and 4 - in arch/*/include/asm/*; should e.g. MIPS folks
> get spammed with the entire thing, just because one patch consolidates
> some ifdefs?

If it is all related: absolutly.  If no just split it into two or more
series.