Re: [patch 00/17] PNP Lindent

Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-23T22:53:49Z

On Monday 23 July 2007 04:49:09 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:39:57 -0600
> Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 23 July 2007 04:08:52 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > eep, this is the worst time for me to merge this stuff: I get to carry
> > > large diffs against lots of files for two months.
> > >
> > > The best time to do this would be late(ish) in the 2.6.24 merge window.
> > >
> > > Can we do it then?
> >
> > Sure. I never know what the right time is. Would that be after 2.6.23
> > has come out, your big bunch-o-patches has gone to Linus, and shortly
> > before 2.6.24-rc1?
> >
>
> Yes, that works. I was carrying a Lindent-UFS patch for a month and it
> broke regularly. But it was trivial to fix: I'd just rerun `Lindent
> fs/ufs/*.c' to regenerate it. Then reapply the manual-post-lindent-fixups
> patch on top of that, and fix any remaining rejects.

It sounds like it'd be more convenient for you if I made a single
Lindent-PNP patch plus a post-lindent-fixups patch, rather than
separating things by files. I'll try to remember to do that after
2.6.23 comes out.

Bjorn