linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] Constify struct address_space

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Message-ID: <20091215104706.GG17930@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:47:06 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Constify struct address_space_operations for
 2.6.32-git-053fe57ac v2

On Tue 2009-12-15 00:13:17, Emese Revfy wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Now, a 300 patch series to lkml is not the way to do this.
> > First step is to make checkpatch.pl warn about new cases.
> 
> I will add this structures the checkpatch in the next patch series.
> 
> > Second step should be to convert all definitions, but using the "one
> > patch per maintainer" rule, not "one patch per file" rule. Yes it's
> > somewhat janitorial, but no it's not a big deal as long as it's not 300
> > patches to lkml. And it is much better than whitespace changes; it's
> > a real quality improvement to the kernel (in terms of code generation
> > and API)
> 
> The first series was based on one patch per structure type, the current
> split-up is based on one patch per structure type *and* subsystem as
> suggested by Greg KH. I used get_maintainer --subsystem to find them which
> resulted in 150 patches. If you know a better way or want per-type patches,
> please let me know (and discuss it with Greg ;).

Please push VFS patches first -- in small series. Unless you can
address Al Viro's objections, I do not think rest should go in (and no
need to spam l-k in the process).
									Pavel
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