Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: cleanup alloc_subdevices

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:49:46PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Monday, June 11, 2012 5:44 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:07:41PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >> 2, 3, and 4 probably go together. They all deal with the 'num_subdevices'
> >> 
> >> 1 can be a separate patch as long as I don't do the rename.
> >> 
> >> 5, 6, and 7 could all go together with the final rename of the function.
> >> 
> >> Does that sound ok?
> >
> > No, why not just break it up into 7 different patches?  You are doing
> > different things, which would you rather review for correctness, 7
> > simple, tiny patches, or some that do multiple things at the same time
> > that are bigger?
> 
> Ok. I just posted the first one. It's still pretty big since it hits every
> comedi driver file.
> 
> Please ignore the first post. I fat-fingered the prototype in the header.
> v2 is correct.
> 
> Also, I have never done local commits to my Linux-next tree so I'm not
> sure how to proceed with the incremental patches. If it's ok with you
> I'll just wait for each patch to go into staging.

Create a brach from the one you are working on:
	git branch -b my_branch
make a change and commit it
commit another one
and so on.
then create the patches:
	git format-patch original_branch_name..my_branch
and use git send-email to send them off in order.

Otherwise we are going to take 7 weeks when I apply one of your patches
a week :)

thanks,

greg k-h