linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce strreplace

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Date:	Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:02:43 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce strreplace

On Tue,  9 Jun 2015 01:26:48 +0200 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:

> Doing single-character substitution on an entire string is open-coded
> in a few places, sometimes in a rather suboptimal way. This introduces
> a trivial helper, strreplace, for this task along with a few example
> conversions.
> 
> Andrew, can I get you to take 1/8 through the mm tree? I'm not sure
> what the easiest path is for the remaining patches.

With this sort of thing I grab everything them feed the dependent
patches to maintainers after the base patch is upstream.

Or I merge the dependent patches myself if they were acked.

Or if the dependent patches are simple I'll just merge them anyway,
shrug.  I'd say these fall into that category.

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