From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:39342 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757535Ab2CEUCG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:02:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:59:27 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Guy, Wey-Yi" Cc: David Miller , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/101] iwlwifi: move iwl_clear_driver_stations to user Message-ID: <20120305195927.GG18128@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20120305_210213_734433_F054CC64) References: <1330889395-533-1-git-send-email-wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> <1330889395-533-2-git-send-email-wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> <20120304.203259.81092010167419901.davem@davemloft.net> <1330907855.12612.50.camel@wwguy-huron> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1330907855.12612.50.camel@wwguy-huron> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 04:37:35PM -0800, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 20:32 -0500, David Miller wrote: > > You seriously cannot queue up this work all at one time. > > > > It is absolutely unreasonable to burdon the community with having to > > review a hundred patches at one time. > > > > You must split these submissions down into smaller groups, say groups > > of 10 or so patches. > > > > Also consider what if one patch in the first ten has a problem, and > > this causes conflicts with the next 90 patches? > > I understand there are a lot of patches, we are doing major re-factor > works and those patches are inter-related. I could try to see if I can > break those into smaller groups (maybe 20 - 30 patches a group). > > John/David, are you prefer to see the submission like this? This is a large request. But FWIW, the iwlwifi team typically does manage their own trees and works via pull requests. It might be nice to see more/smaller requests in the future. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.