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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: michael.craig.thompson@gmail.com, phillip@hellewell.homeip.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, mike@halcrow.us, mhalcrow@us.ibm.com,
	mcthomps@us.ibm.com, toml@us.ibm.com, yoder1@us.ibm.com,
	jmorris@namei.org, sct@redhat.com, ezk@cs.sunysb.edu,
	dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13: eCryptfs] eCryptfs Patch Set
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 20:13:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060513201341.63590cff.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44669D12.5050306@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Michael Thompson wrote:
>  > On 5/12/06, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
>  >> BTW.  I'm not sure if linux-fsdevel has different conventions; however
>  >> usually you don't break up a patch according to files, but logical
>  >> components or transformations from one "sane" kernel tree to the next.
>  >> And that means things keep compiling and working.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > The files themselves are broken down into logical components, so the
>  > per-file patch approach seems reasonable to me.
> 
>  Half a filesystem is a logical component?
> 
>  At the very least it wires up all the kconfig stuff _first_, so it
>  breaks the tree from about patch 3 until 13.

Doesn't matter.  The rule is stated as "kernel should compile at each
step", but the _real_ rule is "don't break git-bisect".

Nobody is going to include a half-applied filesystem in their .config while
performing git-bisection, so it can go in in any order.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-14  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-13  3:37 [PATCH 0/13: eCryptfs] eCryptfs Patch Set Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:40 ` [PATCH 1/13: eCryptfs] fs/Makefile and fs/Kconfig Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  8:51   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-13  3:41 ` [PATCH 2/13: eCryptfs] Documentation Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:42 ` [PATCH 3/13: eCryptfs] Makefile Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:42 ` [PATCH 4/13: eCryptfs] Main module functions Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:43 ` [PATCH 5/13: eCryptfs] Header declarations Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:44 ` [PATCH 6/13: eCryptfs] Superblock operations Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:45 ` [PATCH 7/13: eCryptfs] Dentry operations Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:45 ` [PATCH 8/13: eCryptfs] File operations Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:46 ` [PATCH 9/13: eCryptfs] Inode operations Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:47 ` [PATCH 10/13: eCryptfs] Mmap operations Phillip Hellewell
2006-06-28 14:16   ` Pekka Enberg
2006-06-28 15:02     ` Michael Halcrow
2006-05-13  3:47 ` [PATCH 11/13: eCryptfs] Keystore Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:48 ` [PATCH 12/13: eCryptfs] Crypto functions Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  3:49 ` [PATCH 13/13: eCryptfs] Debug functions Phillip Hellewell
2006-05-13  4:21 ` [PATCH 0/13: eCryptfs] eCryptfs Patch Set Nick Piggin
2006-05-13 16:21   ` Michael Thompson
2006-05-14  2:59     ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-14  3:13       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-05-14  3:26         ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-14  3:43           ` Michael Halcrow
2006-05-14  3:54             ` Greg KH
2006-05-15 10:17         ` David Howells
2006-05-15 10:59           ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-20  9:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-01 20:47   ` Michael Halcrow
2006-07-07 10:01     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-07 11:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-07 12:23     ` Pekka Enberg
2006-07-07 17:22     ` David Quigley
2006-07-08 17:21       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-08 21:22         ` Erez Zadok

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