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From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chuansheng.liu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0034/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:59:46 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1608021558310.20830@gjva.wvxbf.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160802132509.GD3608@potion>

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Radim Krčmář wrote:

> Btw. the posting could be improved with a cover letter that would link 
> all patches to it; the series will be easier to handle in mail clients 
> and there will be a clear place for common discussion about the 
> patchset.  Optionally merge related patches; one patch per subsystem 
> would be ideal.

If this should be done at all (which I don't think so, the octal 
representation looks actually much more straightforward than the cryptic 
macros), it should be scripted (preferably in coccinelle) and sent out as 
a script to run on the whole tree at higher maintainer levels.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-02 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02 10:36 Baole Ni
2016-08-02 13:25 ` Radim Krčmář
2016-08-02 13:59   ` Jiri Kosina [this message]

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