From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave.long@linaro.org (David Long)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:55:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] Consolidate redundant register/stack access code
In-Reply-To: <20160209094526.GB25268@gmail.com>
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On 02/09/2016 04:45 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 00:38 -0500, David Long wrote:
>>
>>> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> Move duplicate and functionally equivalent code for accessing registers
>>> and stack (CONFIG_HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API) from arch subdirs into
>>> common kernel files.
>>>
>>> I'm sending this out again (with updated distribution list) because v2
>>> just never got pulled in, even though I don't think there were any
>>> outstanding issues.
>>
>> A big cross arch patch like this would often get taken by Andrew Morton, but
>> AFAICS you didn't CC him - so I just added him, perhaps he'll pick it up for
>> us :D
>
> The other problem is that the second patch is commingling changes to 6 separate
> architectures:
>
>   16 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-)
>
> that should probably be 6 separate patches. Easier to review, easier to bisect to,
> easier to revert, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Ingo
>

I see your point but I'm not sure it could have been broken into 
separate successive patches that would each build for all architectures.

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