Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:55:22 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/44 take 2] [UBI] Unsorted Block Images |
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:44:16PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:50 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I think this is the wrong approach. For one thing the unit terms is > > rather foregin in Linux > > I would rather disagree. Subjective. Unit is a generic word, just like > subsystem. Unit-tests for example is a widespread word it refer to > internal units of a big system.
What I meant is that we currently do not use the 'unit' term for code modules in the linux kernel at all.
> Please, refine what does this exactly mean. I do not see how I should > have sent it, sorry. OK, I've separated external headers, JFFS2 support, > build stuff. What next?
You should not separate more but less. Generelly the review-"unit" should be a functionally separate kenrel module, not microscopic pieces of it. Unfortunately there are mailinglist limitations why we sometimes have to split things up a little further, but it's usually really hard to do useful splits at this boundary.
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