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From: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, utz.bacher@de.ibm.com, mmarek@suse.cz,
	jsvogt@de.ibm.com, MIJUNG@de.ibm.com,
	cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com, michael@ibmra.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] GenWQE: Remove option to select name
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:00:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383642001.15859.1.camel@oc7383187364.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527817CF.7020304@gmail.com>

Hi Ryan,

Am Dienstag, den 05.11.2013, 08:55 +1100 schrieb Ryan Mallon:
> On 05/11/13 04:08, Frank Haverkamp wrote:
> > Selecting interface names via configuration option is obsolete.
> 
> Don't do this. You are adding completely new code, so there is no reason
> to post a patch full of code that is known to be incorrect, followed by
> a set of patches fixing things. Just post the correct code to start
> with. This makes the git history cleaner, and makes the code easier to
> review.

Agreed.

> You can use tools like git interactive rebase to split your work into
> multiple patches. It should be quite easy for this because you mostly
> just want to break down things to the file level, so even:
> 
>   git reset --soft <your-first-commit>
> 
> and then manually staging and commiting things from there would probably
> be enough. You can use git add --interactive to stage individual file
> hunks if you want to break things down further.

I have sent "Generic WorkQueue Engine (GenWQE) device driver (v6)" now
which hopefully is what you wanted.

Regards

Frank


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-04 17:08 [PATCH 0/9] Generic WorkQueue Engine (GenWQE) device driver (v5) Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/9] Generic WorkQueue Engine (GenWQE) device driver (v4) Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 22:12   ` Greg KH
2013-11-05  7:21     ` Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/9] GenWQE: Remove option to select name Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 21:55   ` Ryan Mallon
2013-11-05  9:00     ` Frank Haverkamp [this message]
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 3/9] GenWQE: Remove obsolete constants Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 4/9] GenWQE: Rework comments Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 5/9] GenWQE: Move comments Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 6/9] GenWQE: Remove/rework module parameters Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 7/9] GenWQE: Start using sysfs attribute groups Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 8/9] GenWQE: Simplify sysfs buffer printouts Frank Haverkamp
2013-11-04 17:08 ` [PATCH 9/9] GenWQE: Increment driver internal version number Frank Haverkamp

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