04/11/2026 10:29, David Marchand:

On Wed, 4 Nov 2026 at 09:56, fengchengwen <fengchengwen@huawei.com> wrote:
On 11/4/2026 3:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> From: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
>> 905 files changed, 6113 insertions(+), 5439 deletions(-)
>
> Maybe a single coccinelle script would help here? Rather than trying to look
> at so many patches.

A coccinelle script is a helpful idea. I will try to prepare one.

Well, maybe.
But never a 200+ patches series again.

Putting aside the way it was submitted, it seems this change is only
cosmetic, and it was not announced in a *previous* deprecation notice.

Why do we need this change?
Why now, in this release?

I assume it is not for 26.11.
Chengwen wanted to fix the namespace of SOCKET_ID_ANY, adding RTE_.
And I told him that we should avoid changing this API 2 times
when we will want to fix the terminology
around CPU socket and NUMA memory domain.
I think we should do both at once.
That's why we see this big change.

BUT

It would be more efficient for such a change to discuss it first.
Then once we agree on the names and usage,
we should make it in a way it can be reproduced, maintained
and ease future backport of patches containing the new terminology.
A coccinelle script looks appropriate.
And of course, the patch series should not have so many patches,
it does not make sense.
A mechanical change should come in one patch.
If the series deserves several different mechanical changes,
few patches should be sent for them, not hundreds.