linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/24] kobject: return actual error on kset_create_and

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Message-ID: <53A0EE13.9070208@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:40:35 +0800
From:	Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@...cle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] kobject: return actual error on kset_create_and_add


On 06/17/2014 23:50 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:56:04PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote:
>>
>> On 06/17/2014 22:42 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 22:25 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote:
>>>> From: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@...cle.com>
>>>>
>>>> It's better to return the actual error rather than NULL because
>>>> kset_register() can failed due to other reasons.
>>>>

<snip>

>>>> 
>>>
>>> This patch series isn't bisectable.  When changing an error signal from
>>> NULL to non-NULL, you have to do it as one patch, otherwise if a
>>> bisection lands in here we'll get error returns from all our kobject
>>> kset code and the kernel won't boot.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out.
>>
>>> It's fine if you're sending it out as 24 patches for review, but it has
>>> to be applied as a single one.
>>
>> Ok, I'll post the v2 patch as a single one once this series has been reviewed.
> 
> Also, now that you sent a bunch of different patches out, some
> maintainers will not realize that this first one has to be applied (i.e.
> you gave them no sense that there was a dependancy.)
> 
> You will have to watch very carefully to ensure that those patches do
> not now get accepted, as they will break the existing code.

Ok, and I'll inform every other maintainers do not apply their patch individually.


Cheers,
-Jeff
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