Dear Reinhard Meyer,
In message 4C665CB9.2040406@emk-elektronik.de you wrote:
If I add those discrete changes to each driver patch (where it might actually belong), the incremental changes to some of those files would require all those driver patches to be applied in the right order to avoid conflicts.
Yes, and? What's the problem with that?
Therefore I would like to put all new header files and all changes to header files in one patch which would need to be applied before the driver patches.
That patch would essentially cause no change to existing code.
Anyone find this idea bad?
Yes,m that's a bad idea. Please re-read the "patches" wiki page. Commits shall be atomic, and complete. Splitting stuff that belongstogether is a bad idea, and your first patch that adds unused stuff will be rejected because of that reason: adding unused stuff.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk