From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Petrovitsch Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:47:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [Q] Sending a large patch Message-Id: <1400064452.18277.19.camel@thorin> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Mit, 2014-05-14 at 01:48 +0100, Masaru Nomura wrote: [...] > Now, I'm cleaning up a file and it has over 100 warnings of line over > 80 character issues. As the problem seems to be the same, I may And you are really sure that is more readable afterwards with the additional line breaks? > correct the bugs and send one commit. But I think it's a pain for > reviewers to check all of them within one patch. Apart from the questionable usefulness of the above, you should split it per subsystem/maintainer so that people do not need to look for "their" parts. Additionally, the maintainer may take the patch (and you are done) or reject it (and you are also done;-). Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at