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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:51:11AM -0700, Fred Isaman wrote:
> Note that the not much touches the common code, especially in our
> first submission, so it will be a fairly small patch, which we will
> not be adverse to breaking up at reviewers request.  Right now we are
> trying to accommodate Cristoph's request for larger patches combined
> with Trond's request for small, easy to review patches for anything
> that touches common code.

I'm not Cristoph, but for changes to generic code anywhere in the kernel
small patches are indeed a requirement, adn they should do exactly one
thing.  Adding new code is a different issue from that.