linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] x86: Cleanup idt, gdt/ldt/tss structs

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:57:08 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Joe Damato <ice799@...il.com>, linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-newbie@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] x86: Cleanup idt, gdt/ldt/tss structs


* Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:15:20PM -0700, Joe Damato wrote:
> > Hi -
> > 
> > This is my first submission to the kernel, so (beware!) please let me know if I can make any improvements on these patches.
> 
> It looks like you provide one patch per file. You should group some 
> of them together so that each patch does a functional change and 
> everything still builds after incrementally applying that patch. The 
> way you have splitted them will break builds if someone tries to 
> build after patch 1 for instance.

yes, at every step the kernel is expected to build and boot fine.

	Ingo
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