Re: [DRIVER SUBMISSION] DRBD wants to go mainline

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:58:14PM +0200, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:52:36AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 22 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Lars Ellenberg <lars@linbit.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > Jens, Andrew, anyone: please review,
> > > > and give me advice how to proceed from here.
> > > 
> > > The standard procedure would be to post all the source code in logical
> > > pieces on the list for review. Then iterate until all comments are
> > > addressed.
> > 
> > Yep, cleanup the style issues (that make sense) from checkpatch and then
> > psot as a series of patches that can be reviewed. Linking to a git tree
> > wont get you very far.
> 
> it got me far enough, for the first try, anyways :-)
> I did not spam the lkml with patches, and still got some very useful
> advice (no idea how I could overlook the checkpatch.pl complaints).
> 
> If each patch of a series needs to compile and work,
> there will probably only one 17kB patch...
Thats not needed for reviewing..

> 33 WARNING: line over 80 characters
>     hmmm. get more ugly...
>     probably need some helper functions and temp variables?

Several people question this check. It gets ugly on text-mode but for
the price of readability for the rest.
So I suggest concentrate on other matters, but keep an eye for the
"many small functions that do exactly _one_ thing and few local variables"
approach.

	Sam