On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> One big patch for the whole kernel will not work anyway. You have to split it
> up to allow subsystems to integrate them in their own trees. With one big
> patch you would get collisions all over the tree causing the complete patch
> to get dropped. Also CC subsystem maintainers on their parts. And please send
> the patches as replies to the first one as it cleans up readability of lkml a
> lot :)
Oops, Just read this warning after sending the (big) patch. Sorry It's my first
patch :). I'll split it and do as written. Thanks alot :).
> > I think this will be better done in another patch to let every patch do one
> > single thing. right ?
>
> Yes. But I would suggest starting with the kmalloc()->kzalloc() things. When
> you do this conversions just remove the casts of the lines you're touching.
> This will reduce the size of the complete thing avoiding two rather trivial
> patches touching the same line twice.
>
> Eike
OK. In progress
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