Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v22 00/25] replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts

[Leandro Dorileo <l@dorileo.org>]

Hi Kevin,

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:34:53AM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 21.03.2014 um 01:07 hat Leandro Dorileo geschrieben:
> > Hi Chunyan,
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:31:36PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote:
> > > This patch series is to replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts, so that only
> > > one Qemu Option structure is kept in QEMU code.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Last night I took some time do take a deeper look at you series and the required
> > effort to do the QemuOptionParameter -> QemuOpts migration.
> > 
> > I think you've over complicated the things, I understand you tried to keep your
> > serie's bisectability (?), but the final result was something really hard to
> > review and to integrate as well. The overall approach wasn't even resolving the
> > bisectability problem since it breaks the tree until the last commit. Moreover,
> > in the path of getting things ready you created new problems and their respective
> > fixes, what we really don't need to.
> > 
> > In this regards you could have kept things as simple as possible and submitted
> > the patches in a "natural way", even if they were breaking the build between each
> > patch, you could get all the required maintainer's Reviewed-by + Tested-by +
> > Signed-off-by and so on for each individual patch and when it was time to
> > integrate get squashed the needed patches.
> 
> No, please not. If you have bisectability on the surface, but the bisect
> ends in a monster patch with several thousand lines of code, nothing is
> won.

I don't think that is the case (several thousand lines), with the experiment I did the
"squashable" patches are 769 insertions(+), 1076 deletions(-), of course, the patch
series is bigger than that - not that bigger, but bigger - but I'm mentioning only
the patches I think need to be squashed.

These patches represent the changes across the block layer. I see no gain on increasing
the patches complexity just to avoid a patch with that statistic. More over, the changes
are very simple and easily reviewable.

Regards...

-- 
Leandro Dorileo