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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: I have a large patch in the 2000 lines. What to do?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:31:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151016213110.GA23593@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAENf94LAfnJaDDUv9k8By-yTC4kSyw-2iHb+QMDfkdGz3qwAWw@mail.gmail.com>



On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 06:14:01PM -0300, Julio Faracco wrote:
> 
> What is the recommendation when I change a structure in a include file
> and this change causes a lots of new changes, for example?

You do the change in a way that does not cause build failures and spread
the patches out over all subsystems to fix things up.

Do you have a specific example you were thinking of so that I can show
how it can be done in this way?

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-16 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-09 18:45 I have a large patch in the 2000 lines. What to do? Ivan Safonov
2015-10-09 19:12 ` Anish Kumar
2015-10-09 19:20   ` Greg KH
2015-10-10  1:02     ` Ivan Safonov
2015-10-10 14:14       ` Greg KH
2015-10-16 21:14         ` Julio Faracco
2015-10-16 21:31           ` Greg KH [this message]

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