linux-kernel - Re: Send a large patch right now or is it better to do it later?

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:17:20 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Marcus Wolf <marcus.wolf@...f-entwicklungen.de>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: Send a large patch right now or is it better to do it  later?

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 05:16:56PM +0200, Marcus Wolf wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>  
> according to the proposals of Walter Harms, I revised the rf69.c: I replaced
> some macros with inline functions and removed some obsolete ifdefs. According to
> walter this will improve the resource situation. In addition the readybility is
> enhanced, since lines got shorter. It's a quite big change, that touched nearly
> every function in that file.
> I was testing the new code for a while now and did not observer a problem so
> far. But I don't have a kind of unit test, so my tests for sure didn't cover
> everything.
>  
> Is it a good time, to submit such a change in these days, or is it prefrable to
> submit it later?
> In adition, I am a bit afraid of my current mailtool doing something
> unexpected...

You can send patches anytime, don't worry about timing, I can handle
putting them in the correct patch queue.

> P.S. Can you process diffs fom SVN, too, or is it mandatory to create the diff
> with git?

As long as it is in normal patch format, I can apply it.  Personally, I
use quilt to generate patche, which uses 'diff', and that works just
fine.

thanks,

greg k-h