linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 10/11] backports: prefix c-file / h-file auto backport with BPAUTO

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Message-ID: <20141105082029.GL12953@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:20:29 +0100
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	backports@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	yann.morin.1998@...e.fr, mmarek@...e.cz, sassmann@...nic.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 10/11] backports: prefix c-file / h-file auto
	backport with BPAUTO

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 09:12:03AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 09:02 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > > But the *code* changes
> > > you're making here that check whether bp_prefix is being duplicated
> > > aren't necessary for that, and are in fact confusing and dangerous.
> > 
> > Understood, thanks for the review, hopefully this is addressed with the
> > latest series.
> 
> Actually, maybe you wanted these changes because you didn't want to end
> up with CONFIG_BACKPORT_BPAUTO_ for integration? I think that's a small
> price to pay though for code complexity trade-off, IMHO you should
> accept CONFIG_BACKPORT_BPAUTO_ and remove the code changes.

Quite the contrary, I did this to get CONFIG_BACKPORT_BPAUTO_ and not
CONFIG_BACKPORT_BACKPORT_. So right now I do get CONFIG_BACKPORT_BPAUTO_
for integration (with the v2 patch series).

  Luis
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