netdev - Re: net-next-2.6 [pull-request] [PATCH 0/37] dccp: Revised set of feature-negotiation patches

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Message-Id: <20080921.235853.223987556.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:58:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	acme@...hat.com, dccp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net-next-2.6 [pull-request] [PATCH 0/37] dccp: Revised set of
 feature-negotiation patches

From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:28:07 +0200

> | There are two paths forward at the current point in time.
> | 
> | 1) You submit a very small group of patches at a time to me.
> |    I'm talking like 5 or 6 patches at a time, maximum.
> | 
> |    And I'm going to give extra amounts of personal review to
> |    these, so it will take even more time than usual.
> | 
> Further review can never harm, so I am sure this will be good.
> 
> I have a question regarding granularity - the current granularity is
> meant to be logical, but is low.
> It is easy to get distracted by the details since at the end of
> the day the 37 patches achieve a rewriting of feat.c in small steps.
> 
> Would you therefore be ok with me combining some of the patches or would
> you prefer to review the set at its current granularity?

Current granularity.

So, submit about 5 pieces at a time, you can say at the beginning of
the series (in the [PATCH 0/X]: email) something like "this is phase N
in the rewriting of feat.c which will achieve X Y and Z"
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