From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758461AbWLIV4F (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:56:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758492AbWLIV4F (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:56:05 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:60521 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758461AbWLIV4C (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:56:02 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <457B30EC.8020805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:55:56 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061202 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Enberg CC: "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] kcalloc: Re-order the first two out-of-order args to kcalloc(). References: <84144f020612090553n7fe309b7u54dd7f58424c4008@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020612090554o571f142bt7f59db2c0dfa782f@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020612090618g27ac861ka4ad693a0dee1928@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84144f020612090618g27ac861ka4ad693a0dee1928@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 12/9/06, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> normally what i would do but, in the case of that patch, there are >> five files affected, *all* of which are in totally different >> subsystems (macintosh, net, scsi, usb, sunrpc). are you suggesting >> that up to 5 different people be CC'ed? >> >> and what about source-wide aesthetic changes that might touch dozens >> or hundreds of files? > > Well, it depends. There are no fixed rules in the art of patch > feeding. FWIW, I probably would send this patch just to akpm too. Yes, patches like this one are no big deal. But being involved in subsystem maintenance, I find patches split up per subsystem much easier to handle. Ccing the subsystem maintainers doen't make much sens if you don't split the patch for them to integrate separately. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- ==-- -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/