From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261969AbVGJVx6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:53:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262114AbVGJVvn (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:51:43 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:32972 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261969AbVGJVuH (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:50:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050710.144910.15269860.davem@davemloft.net> To: olh@suse.de Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/82] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason. From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050710193508.0.PmFpst2252.2247.olh@nectarine.suse.de> References: <20050710193508.0.PmFpst2252.2247.olh@nectarine.suse.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org An 82 entry patchbomb to the mailing lists is unacceptable and is going to kill vger.kernel.org, please don't do this. If you cannot condense your patch set into a smaller set of patches (I think you really could for this one), then only post say 10 or so at a time and wait for review and integration. 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. Thanks.