linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 29/32] trace event asoc remove semicolons

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Message-ID: <20110503205759.GD32331@Krystal>
Date:	Tue, 3 May 2011 16:57:59 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 29/32] trace event asoc remove semicolons

* Mark Brown (broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com) wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:14:37PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, this change is related, because these declarations will cause harm.
> > > The structure declaration cannot be put within an array declaration,
> > > because then they won't be simply "ignored": they will try to declare
> > > structures within an array, which is not valid. This is why I did this
> > > change in the same patch.
> 
> > This might make a bit more sense if we'd seen the earlier or possibly
> > later patches...  According to the patch description all you're doing
> > here is removing the semicolons.
> 
> OK, now I see patch 1 I understand why you're doing this.  It should
> still be at least called out in the patch description if not actually
> split out into a separate patch (which would be ideal) - one of the
> things that really stands out in reviews is unrelated changes.

Due to the large number of patches (32 overall), I prefer not to overdo
it in terms of splitting changes to each individual subsystem in even
more patches. If it's OK with you, I'll just clarify the changelog.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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