On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 23:19 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
No, on contrary. New versions of a patch should always make sure to thread correctly to the old version(s). It seems that preferences here are a matter of taste - my personal preference is to link to the preceeding version of the patch, but most others seem to prefer to link to the first version always.
That's kind of what I thought at first as well, but then I saw many others posting patches not adhering to that and still getting your ack no problem: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67581 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67462 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67394 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67187