From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
darrick.wong@oracle.com, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: xfs: Change return type to vm_fault_t
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 05:04:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180415120426.GA10479@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180415111104.GB25513@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 04:11:04AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Please just send one damn patch adding the typedef and the sparse
> > annotation and converting everyone over. Splitting this into five
> > gazillion patches that do nothing doesn't help anyone.
>
> The XFS one is trivial. Many of the others are not.
if they arne't trivial you are doing something wrong. That is you
fix bugs that exist independent of the annotation together with the
annotation.
Fix all the bugs first, and send them in (including for -stable) and
then do the annotations in one big patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-15 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-14 20:05 [PATCH] fs: xfs: Change return type to vm_fault_t Souptick Joarder
2018-04-14 21:59 ` Dave Chinner
2018-04-14 22:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-15 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-15 11:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-15 12:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-04-15 12:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-16 8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-16 11:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-16 11:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-16 11:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-16 17:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-05-30 12:35 ` Souptick Joarder
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