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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH] kcalloc: Re-order the first two out-of-order args to kcalloc().
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On 12/9/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> 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.