linux-kernel - RE: [lustre-devel] [PATCH 1/3] staging: lustre: checkpatch cleanups for nidstring.c

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Message-ID: <fc4cb8a899234adabb499f57b76a20b2@EXCHCS32.ornl.gov>
Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:56:22 +0000
From:	"Simmons, James A." <simmonsja@...l.gov>
To:	'Dan Carpenter' <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: RE: [lustre-devel] [PATCH 1/3] staging: lustre: checkpatch cleanups
 for nidstring.c

>Yeah.  That is often the fastest way to fix all the checkpatch warnings.
>
>Checkpatch warnings are pretty mechanical.  Just send like 100 patches
>at a time until everything is fixed.  Don't overthink.  Say your patch
>breaks the alignment then you have to fix that, but otherwise only fix
>one thing at a time.  Sometimes people will ask you to fix something
>else on the same line, but just say "I didn't introduce that, but yes I
>am planning to fix that in a later patchset since I am following the
>one thing per patch rule."
>
>Don't feel shame about sending many small patches.  We pretty much merge
>everything.

It was the sense of it taking forever with that amount of patches needed with
the one file approach. Looking at the back log of fixes its not as bad as I thought
for libcfs/LNet. Once those fixes are merged the style cleanups can happen
pretty quickly.

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