From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures. Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:47:40 -0700 Message-ID: <1499752060.4457.8.camel@perches.com> References: <0e68326e48e123c70191169a0c0da820237425ec.1499682619.git.arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> <1499706011.5468.15.camel@perches.com> <8884bd80-b8d5-1c1e-5235-b0a0c173bc45@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Arvind Yadav , santosh@chelsio.com, davem@davemloft.net Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8884bd80-b8d5-1c1e-5235-b0a0c173bc45@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 11:11 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote: > Hi Joe, > > > On Monday 10 July 2017 10:30 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 16:04 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote: > > > attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions > > > working with attribute_groups provided by work > > > with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const. > > > > I think it's good you are doing all of these. > > > > Instead of individually sending these patches, could you > > please send a patch series for all of these attribute_group > > patches with a cover letter at the same time? > > > > That could make it easier for a trivial maintainer to apply > > all of these at once and not get some applied and others > > ignored or dropped on the floor. > > > > Once again, I will send all of patch together, But I have doubt. If it's > having > different maintainer. Example- 'net:' subsystem is having a different > different > maintainer. So do i need to add all the maintainer in single list. Which > can confuse > what patch is for what maintainer. Please suggest me. Please send individual patches, one per maintainer/subsystem as a series with a cover letter like: [PATCH 0/N] treewide: constify attribute_group structures [PATCH 1/N] chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group [PATCH 2/N] chelsio: cxgb4: constify attribute_group ... [PATCH N/N] subsystem: constify attribute_group