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.
next prev parent 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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