Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] slight optimization of addr compare for some modules

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 16:47 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> On 2013/12/17 9:58, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> > On 2013/12/17 1:25, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> These should still be inspected for appropriate use of
> >> ether_addr_equal or ether_addr_equal_unaligned, but a
> >> better cocci input sp-file is:
> >>
> >> $ cat ether_addr_equal_unaligned.cocci 
> >> @@
> >> expression e1;
> >> expression e2;
> >> @@
[]
> There are too many places need to be changed, should I make it in one patch or several pathset,
> pls give me some advise. thanks

Separate per-maintainer patches are generally good.
It can take several attempts to get these applied
in all the various trees.

So maybe 1 patch for each of most of these.  Maybe
some of these like drivers/media, drivers/mtd and
drivers/staging could probably be single patches.

$ git grep --name-only -E "\bmemcmp\s*\([^,]+,[^,]+,\s*(ETH_ALEN|6)\s*\)"| \
  sed -r 's@\w+.[ch]$@@' | sort | uniq
arch/x86/kernel/apic/
block/partitions/
drivers/atm/
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/
drivers/isdn/i4l/
drivers/media/dvb-core/
drivers/media/usb/gspca/
drivers/mtd/
drivers/mtd/nand/
drivers/net/bonding/
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/
drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/
drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/
drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/
drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/
drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/
drivers/net/fddi/skfp/
drivers/net/hamradio/
drivers/net/plip/
drivers/net/ppp/
drivers/net/wireless/
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/
drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/
drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/
drivers/s390/net/
drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/
drivers/staging/ozwpan/
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/
drivers/staging/rtl8712/
drivers/staging/vt6655/
drivers/staging/vt6656/
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/
drivers/target/iscsi/
drivers/usb/atm/
drivers/usb/storage/
drivers/video/matrox/
fs/sysv/
include/linux/
init/
net/batman-adv/
net/batman-adv/translation-
net/bluetooth/bnep/
net/bluetooth/hidp/
net/bridge/
net/caif/
net/mac80211/
net/sunrpc/auth_gss/
scripts/