linux-kernel - Re: Adjustments for a lot of function implementations

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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:40:10 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Muralidharan Karicheri <mkaricheri@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adjustments for a lot of function implementations

>>>> Feel free to repost, but only if you organize the patch as either fixing the same type of
>>>> issue for a whole subdirectory (media/usb, media/pci, etc)
>>
>> Just for the record, while this may work for media, it won't work for all
>> subsystems.  One will quickly get a complaint that the big patch needs to
>> go into multiple trees.
> 
> For the record: this only applies to drivers/media.

Interesting …


> We discussed what do to with series like this during our media summit last Friday

Would you like to share any more information from this meeting?


> and this was the conclusion of that.

I would appreciate further indications for a corresponding change acceptance.

I found a feedback by Mauro Carvalho Chehab more constructive.

[GIT,PULL,FOR,v4.15] Cleanup fixes
https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/43957/

“…
This time, I was nice and I took some time doing:

	$ quilt fold < `quilt next` && quilt delete `quilt next`
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Regards,
Markus