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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:47:40 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>, santosh@...lsio.com, davem@...emloft.net Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures. On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 11:11 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote: > Hi Joe, > > > On Monday 10 July 2017 10:30 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 16:04 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote: > > > attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions > > > working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work > > > with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const. > > > > I think it's good you are doing all of these. > > > > Instead of individually sending these patches, could you > > please send a patch series for all of these attribute_group > > patches with a cover letter at the same time? > > > > That could make it easier for a trivial maintainer to apply > > all of these at once and not get some applied and others > > ignored or dropped on the floor. > > > > Once again, I will send all of patch together, But I have doubt. If it's > having > different maintainer. Example- 'net:' subsystem is having a different > different > maintainer. So do i need to add all the maintainer in single list. Which > can confuse > what patch is for what maintainer. Please suggest me. Please send individual patches, one per maintainer/subsystem as a series with a cover letter like: [PATCH 0/N] treewide: constify attribute_group structures [PATCH 1/N] chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group [PATCH 2/N] chelsio: cxgb4: constify attribute_group ... [PATCH N/N] subsystem: constify attribute_group
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