From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262161AbVGJW2K (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:28:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262114AbVGJW1W (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:27:22 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:33462 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262161AbVGJWZJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:25:09 -0400 Message-ID: <42D1A039.9090807@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:24:57 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: olh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/82] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason. References: <20050710193508.0.PmFpst2252.2247.olh@nectarine.suse.de> <20050710.144910.15269860.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050710.144910.15269860.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > Kernel janitor-like patches split up their work _FAR_ too much. They > post one patch per driver, or even per-file, for something as simple > as removing the use of a redundant header file. That's totally > rediculious, and bloats up the kernel changelog history for no good > reason. Instead, you should just post one big patch for all of > drivers/, one for all of net/, something like that. Whoops, in an email just sent, I repeated what you said here, except that you said it better :) 100% agreed... Jeff