From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/28] Sync up drivers/scsi/aic7xxx
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:31:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040928153159.A2655@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41596A58.1060208@adaptec.com>; from luben_tuikov@adaptec.com on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:42:48AM -0400
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:42:48AM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> > Yes, a gradual progression is exactly what I want to see. But based on
> > _logical_ changes, aka fix this, rearchitect that, cleanup this.
>
> This isn't quite possible to be generated from a difference
> of the latest version which I have from the version in
> the linux kernel. They are just too far apart.
This requires intensive manual work indeed. Splitting an enormous into
logical pieces is an effort, but it usually pays off, both because of the
additional review and better documentation.
I'd suggest you apply rule 1 of every lazy hacker and try to solve an
easier partial problem first instead of a full resync. Like merging
over all those local small fixes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 13:03 [patch 0/28] Sync up drivers/scsi/aic7xxx Luben Tuikov
2004-09-28 13:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-28 13:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-09-28 13:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-28 13:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-28 13:19 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-09-28 13:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-28 13:30 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-09-28 13:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-28 13:42 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-09-28 14:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-09-28 14:57 ` Matthias Andree
2004-09-28 13:27 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-28 14:13 ` Jeff Garzik
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