Re: [Xen-devel] [OPW PATCH V3] tools/xl: Call init function for libxl defined datatypes

[Uma Sharma <uma.sharma523@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the help.
I created a new patch for the new changes that I did afterwards.

Regards,
Uma Sharma

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:31 PM, George Dunlap
<george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/19/2014 02:15 PM, Uma Sharma wrote:
>>
>> Actually I looked at the patch sending documentation it stated that if
>> some changes are already acknowledged then we have to write it.
>> Should I write a new patch with all these changes ? Or I can make the
>> changes in different patches?
>
>
> "Acked-by: Wei Liu <...>" means, "Wei Liu has looked at everything in this
> patch and doesn't have any objections to it being committed."  That way, Ian
> J can just take a quick look and check it in, trusing Wei's judgement.
>
> But in this case, Wei hasn't looked at the whole patch, but just half of it.
> So Ian J might end up checking in code that hasn't been reviewed.
>
> Usually, if you change the patch at all (apart from trivial things like
> whitespace or fixing clear violation of coding conventions) you have to drop
> the ack.
>
> Since the code you're adding isn't necessarily connected to the code that
> was already acked, just making a separate patch would have been the best
> idea in this case.
>
>  -George
>

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