linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/71] arc: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache

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Message-ID: <20160320190016.GD17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2016 19:00:16 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/71] arc: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and
 page_cache_{get,release} macros

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm OK with this, but let's not do this as a hundred small patches, OK?
> 
> It doesn't help legibility or testing, so let's just do it in one big go.

Might make sense splitting it by the thing being removed, though - easier
to visually verify that it's doing the right thing when all replacements
are of the same sort...