On Thu, 12 May 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>If Andrew agrees, then I'll commit to doing this cleanup;
> >>- (to a limited degree) no trailing whitespace
> >I just ran a script over -rc4 to remove trailing ws. The result is
> >about 22 MB in 429 patches (iterated over ./*/*).
> >
> >How hard can I patch you before you start patching me?
> >
> >Which addresses am I supposed to send it to? I don't want to break the
> >record for the most annoying patch series in lkml.
> >
>
> First of all, why is it 429 patches?
Because
1) some parts will get rejected due to conflicting patches. Only those
parts will need to be recreated.
2) i forgot to create the 430th patch.
> The patches we want aren't about a
> file or a subdirectory or even a subsystem, but they're supposed to be
> a logical change. Ie. 1 patch.
That would be too large for most mailboxes. If you like a single patch,
you can just concatenate all the patches, so splitting it was a safe bet.
> An exception for something like this would
> be if you want to feed it to different maintainers seperately, but it
> sounds like you just want to bomb it somewhere...
I asume there is no automatic way to get the maintainer from a given
file, and I don't want to grow old and grey while doing that manually.
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-David Hackworth
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