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Message-ID: <20070105103247.GC382@Ahmed> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:32:47 +0200 From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com> To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > One big patch for the whole kernel will not work anyway. You have to split it > up to allow subsystems to integrate them in their own trees. With one big > patch you would get collisions all over the tree causing the complete patch > to get dropped. Also CC subsystem maintainers on their parts. And please send > the patches as replies to the first one as it cleans up readability of lkml a > lot :) Oops, Just read this warning after sending the (big) patch. Sorry It's my first patch :). I'll split it and do as written. Thanks alot :). > > I think this will be better done in another patch to let every patch do one > > single thing. right ? > > Yes. But I would suggest starting with the kmalloc()->kzalloc() things. When > you do this conversions just remove the casts of the lines you're touching. > This will reduce the size of the complete thing avoiding two rather trivial > patches touching the same line twice. > > Eike OK. In progress -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish-07.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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