Re: [PATCH] change PCI nomenclature according to PCI-SIG

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:54:03 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> Next, IMO, you don't have any idea how maintainers will react to this 
> patch, because you CC'd so few of them.  People who perform tree-wide 
> changes should take the time to CC __every__ relevant maintainer.  If 
> you are changing somebody's code, you should always let them know
> about it, and give them an opportunity to review the change. 
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl can help with this.
> 
> So, while the PCI maintainer might agree with the nomenclature
> change, he is not the most qualified person to state that your
> changes have no effect on drivers/edac/ppc4xx_edac.c, for example.

Honestly I'm not thrilled about it either.  Given the large
downside of making many oustanding diffs conflict, I'm wary of these
sorts of changes in general.  I suggested to Stefan that he just put
together one big patch to minimize that pain, but I didn't expect
something so huge (I was thinking it would be mainly limited to PCI
related files).

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center