netdev - Re: respin of __dev* removal patches

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:20:21 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	wfp5p@...idian.itc.virginia.edu, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: respin of __dev* removal patches

From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:39:47 -0800

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 05:15:54PM -0500, Bill Pemberton wrote:
>> I've got a respin of the hotplug removal patches for the networking
>> subsystem.  I don't want to irritate you like the big patch set did,
>> so before I submit them, what do you want to see that will keep your
>> pain to a minimum?
>> 
>> I've redone them so that all the __dev* removals are done at once so
>> there won't be one patch for __devinit, one for __devexit, etc.  I've
>> also broken them down into chunks following what's in the MAINTAINERS
>> file.  The result is 103 patches.
> 
> As that's a lot of patches to handle through patchwork, would it be
> easier for the network maintainers for me to just put these in a tree
> they can pull from?  I will base it off of net-next.

That might work.
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