linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: cleanup switches with cases that can be merged

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Date:	Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:31:58 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: cleanup switches with cases that can be merged

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:02:06PM -0800, David Daney wrote:

> This patch should be split up.
> 
> Octeon, PowerTV, and IP32 are all different architectures.  They
> should be in their own patches.
> 
> The two math-emu parts could probably go together.
> 
> cpu-probe seems like its own thing.

It's conceptually the same change that's being applied everywhere and the
total size is modest so I'm happy to apply it as just a single patch as is.

> This brings us to the larger question:  This is just code churn.  Is
> it even worthwhile?

This has been discussed many times over and we maintainers have not come to
a final conclusion on this type of patches.  I tend to apply this sort of
patches anyway but treat them as low priority.

  Ralf
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