From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using best practices for big software change possibilities
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 12:45:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <be7ee31a-8623-2f23-4dea-ffb323169b52@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170521102750.ljgvdw2btuks3tqf@ninjato>
>> How do you think about to resolve them by additional means besides mail exchange?
>
> That can work.
I am curious to find out which other communication means could really help here.
> E.g. meeting at conferences often solved mail communication problems.
I find my resources too limited at the moment to attend conferences on site.
How are the chances for further clarification by ordinary telephone calls?
> For now, I still wonder why you were unsure about grouping the changes
> into one patch?
I am varying the patch granularity for affected software areas to some degree.
But I came also places along where I got an impression for higher uncertainty.
> Maybe there is something to be learned?
This is also generally possible.
Would you like to extend the scope for the change pattern around questionable
error messages from a single source file to whole subsystem trees in Linux?
Regards,
Markus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-21 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-21 8:23 [PATCH 0/3] zswap: Adjustments for three function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-21 8:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] zswap: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_pool_create() SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-30 23:18 ` Dan Streetman
2017-05-21 8:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] zswap: Improve a size determination in zswap_frontswap_init() SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-30 23:19 ` Dan Streetman
2017-05-21 8:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] zswap: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-21 8:47 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-05-21 9:40 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-21 9:56 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-05-21 10:12 ` Using best practices for big software change possibilities SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-21 10:27 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-05-21 10:45 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-05-30 23:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] zswap: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() Dan Streetman
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