netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/5] sctp: add support for generating stream reconf chunks

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 02:27:09 +0800
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/5] sctp: add support for generating stream
 reconf chunks

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:53 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 07:43:25 -0500
>
>> These all look reasonably good, but it seems before we accept them,
>> there should be an additional patch that actually makes use of the code.
>> I presume that is forthcomming?
>
> This all comes from my asking that the original huge set of patches be
> split up.
>
> People always just rush this kind of work and never think about laying
> out the resubmission properly.
>
> One should always only submit new interfaces along with an actual use
> because only with a use can we properly review whether the new
> interface is good or not.

I was trying to keep the same order with rfc, but it seems not a good
idea, will resplit, thanks.