netdev - Re: [PATCH/RESEND] drivers/net/ethernet: dev_alloc_skb to netdev_alloc

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Message-Id: <20120123.142355.405932925189446350.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:23:55 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	netdev@...deepdalvi.com
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RESEND] drivers/net/ethernet: dev_alloc_skb to
 netdev_alloc_skb

From: "Pradeep A. Dalvi" <netdev@...deepdalvi.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:43:10 +0530

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:23 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
>> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:40:34 -0800
>>
>>> Perhaps you should break this large patch
>>> into multiple separate patches.
>>
>> Agreed, this patch is way too large especially for what is obviously
>> turning out to be a very non-trivial transformation in some cases
>> and also new patch submitters should generally avoid large patches
>> like this.
> 
> Acked! Will try to separate out trivial & non-trivial changes.
> Although, still trivial changes would be big enough. And at the same
> time, splitting changes into 118 patches might turn out to be
> cumbersome for review.

We didn't say to create 118 patches, we're talking about on the
order of 4 or 5 patches.
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