Re: [PATCH 1/3] filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

> > 1) this mail only contain Kconfig and Makefile changing patch.
> >    iow, this patch doesn't contain file moving information.
> >    iow, patch statics and actual patch are different.
> > 2) your latter patch doesn't depend on this patch.
> >    this patch doesn't have justification.
> >    I recommend to separate this patch.
> 
> It is there, it is just in the git -M rename diff output rather than
> "normal" diff.  See the sections like:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/dnotify.c b/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from fs/dnotify.c
> rename to fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
> 
> This type of patch can be applied directly to your git tree and makes
> review trivial.....
> 
> If people who will put this into a subsystem would prefer the long diff
> I'll gladly resend.

Oh sorry ;)
To be honest, almost linux-mm develper are using quilt and I don't use
git almost case.


> I'll agree it isn't required but the other 2 aren't going to apply
> without it, and it does clean up fs.  I'd much rather get this early
> than in the middle somewhere since others are also looking at changing
> this subsystem at the same time....     It can be dropped it others
> agree....

I don't objection this cleanup. but the patch series should be made by
logical group.
I don't like to contain independent cleanup patch ;-)