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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/101] iwlwifi: move iwl_clear_driver_stations to user
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:59:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120305195927.GG18128@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330907855.12612.50.camel@wwguy-huron>

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 04:37:35PM -0800, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 20:32 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > You seriously cannot queue up this work all at one time.
> > 
> > It is absolutely unreasonable to burdon the community with having to
> > review a hundred patches at one time.
> > 
> > You must split these submissions down into smaller groups, say groups
> > of 10 or so patches.
> > 
> > Also consider what if one patch in the first ten has a problem, and
> > this causes conflicts with the next 90 patches?
> 
> I understand there are a lot of patches, we are doing major re-factor
> works and those patches are inter-related. I could try to see if I can
> break those into smaller groups (maybe 20 - 30 patches a group).
> 
> John/David, are you prefer to see the submission like this?

This is a large request.  But FWIW, the iwlwifi team typically does
manage their own trees and works via pull requests.

It might be nice to see more/smaller requests in the future.

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-05 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-04 19:28 [PATCH 000/101] update for 3.4: iwlwifi 2012-03-04 Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 001/101] iwlwifi: move iwl_clear_driver_stations to user Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-05  1:32   ` David Miller
2012-03-05  0:37     ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2012-03-05 19:59       ` John W. Linville [this message]
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 002/101] iwlwifi: remove an unused argument Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 003/101] iwlwifi: reduce sta_lock hold time in TX Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 004/101] iwlwifi: simplify code in iwlagn_key_sta_id Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 005/101] iwlwifi: build some station commands directly Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 006/101] iwlwifi: introduce per-queue locks Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 007/101] iwlwifi: make sta lock private & BH lock Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 008/101] iwlwifi: introduce statistics lock Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 009/101] iwlwifi: remove shared lock Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 010/101] iwlwifi: make EXIT_PENDING depend on mac80211 Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 011/101] iwlwifi: simplify auth/assoc flow Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 012/101] iwlwifi: remove per-device debug level Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 013/101] iwlwifi: remove SKU from config Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 014/101] iwlwifi: use valid TX/RX antenna from hw_params Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 015/101] iwlwifi: make config const Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 016/101] iwlwifi: reduce IDI code ifdef Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 017/101] iwlwifi: clean up (wowlan) suspend flow Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 018/101] iwlwifi: move wowlan bool into priv Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 019/101] iwlwifi: use ieee80211_tx_status Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 020/101] iwlwifi: pass response packet directly Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 021/101] iwlwifi: don't pass iwl_rx_mem_buffer to upper layers Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 022/101] iwlwifi: refactor PCI-E RX path Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 023/101] iwlwifi: transport's tx_agg_alloc must not sleep Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 024/101] iwlwifi: move queue functions to PCI-E Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 025/101] iwlwifi: iwl_rx_cmd_buffer belongs to transport API Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 026/101] iwlwifi: move tid_to_ac to PCI-E Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 027/101] iwlwifi: move IWL_MASK into file using it Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 028/101] iwlwifi: move traffic log definitions Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 029/101] iwlwifi: fix station HT parameters Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 030/101] iwlwifi: move uCode deallocation to drv Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 031/101] iwlwifi: move iwl_base_params to shared header Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 032/101] iwlwifi: move firmware request into drv Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 033/101] iwlwifi: move firmware completion wait Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 034/101] iwlwifi: move ucode loading to op_mode Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 035/101] iwlwifi: split out firmware store Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 036/101] iwlwifi: remove iwl-wifi.h Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 037/101] iwlwifi: add wrappers for command sending Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 038/101] iwlwifi: move RF/CT kill check to command wrapper Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 039/101] iwlwifi: move lockdep assertion into DVM Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 040/101] iwlwifi: move mutex out of shared Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 041/101] iwlwifi: move rfkill status handling out of transport Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 042/101] iwlwifi: rename ucode.h to fw-file.h Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 043/101] iwlwifi: remove AMT check from transport Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 044/101] iwlwifi: remove shadow_reg_enable from hw_params Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:28 ` [PATCH 045/101] iwlwifi: move status check functions out of shared Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 046/101] iwlwifi: make tracing use device as identifier Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 047/101] iwlwifi: virtualize command queue full behaviour Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 048/101] iwlwifi: clean up iwl-core.h inclusions Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 049/101] iwlwifi: remove num_of_queues module parameter Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 050/101] iwlwifi: remove max_txq_num from hw_params Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 051/101] iwlwifi: keep plcp_delta_threshold in priv Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 052/101] iwlwifi: use watchdog timeout from hw_params Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 053/101] iwlwifi: put use_rts_for_aggregation into hw_params Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 054/101] iwlwifi: constify remaining config data Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 055/101] iwlwifi: fix notification wait bug Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 056/101] iwlwifi: abstract out notification wait support Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 057/101] iwlwifi: move ucode_owner to priv Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 058/101] iwlwifi: move all uCode load variables Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 059/101] iwlwifi: move irq to PCIe Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 060/101] iwlwifi: move packet to transport Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 061/101] iwlwifi: virtualize nic_config Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 062/101] iwlwifi: remove priv from shared Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 063/101] iwlwifi: remove PA type configuration Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 064/101] iwlwifi: don't include iwl-prph.h everywhere Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 065/101] iwlwifi: clean up iwl-commands.h Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 066/101] iwlwifi: make iwl_fill_probe_req static Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 067/101] iwlwifi: remove unused arguments from iwlagn_gain_computation Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 068/101] iwlwifi: remove unused argument from rs_initialize_lq Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 069/101] iwlwifi: move iwl_sta_id_or_broadcast to user Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 070/101] iwlwifi: remove unused argument from iwl_init_hw_rates Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 071/101] iwlwifi: remove two unused arguments in testmode Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 072/101] iwlwifi: remove unused argument from iwlagn_suspend Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 073/101] iwlwifi: redesign PASSIVE_NO_RX workaround Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 074/101] iwlwifi: transport's tx_agg_disable must be atomic Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 075/101] iwlwifi: remove BT handlers from lib_ops Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 076/101] iwlwifi: move BT/HT params to shared Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 077/101] iwlwifi: make EEPROM enhanced TX power a bool Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 078/101] iwlwifi: remove unused max_nrg_cck from sensitivity and constify Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 079/101] iwlwifi: return error if loading uCode failed Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 080/101] iwlwifi: dump stack when fail to gain access to the device Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 081/101] iwlwifi: always check if got h/w access before write Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 082/101] iwlwifi: cleanup/fix memory barriers Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 083/101] iwlwifi: use writeb,writel,readl directly Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 084/101] iwlwifi: print DMA stop timeout error only if it happened Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 085/101] iwlwifi: reintroduce iwl_enable_rfkill_int Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 086/101] iwlwifi: add testmode command for rx forwarding Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 087/101] iwlwifi: fixed testmode notifications length Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 088/101] iwlwifi: add option to test MFP Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 089/101] iwlwifi: separate status to priv and trans Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 090/101] iwlwifi: make tx_cmd_pool kmem cache global Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 091/101] iwlwifi: log stop / wake queues Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 092/101] iwlwifi: configure transport layer from dvm op mode Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 093/101] iwlwifi: move setting up fw parameters Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 094/101] iwlwifi: more status bit factoring Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 095/101] iwlwifi: move command queue number out of the iwl_shared struct Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 096/101] iwlwifi: remove messages from queue wake/stop Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 097/101] iwlwifi: make iwl_init_context static Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 098/101] iwlwifi: restore PAN support Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 099/101] iwlwifi: don't delete AP station directly Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 100/101] iwlwifi: correct status bit refactoring errors Wey-Yi Guy
2012-03-04 19:29 ` [PATCH 101/101] iwlwifi: always monitor for stuck queues Wey-Yi Guy

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