Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:02:12 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 0/7] kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c |
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:00:09 +0200 Michal Marek wrote:
> On 30.4.2011 00:46, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:38:12 -0400 Peter Foley wrote: > > > >> This patchset moves scripts/basic/docproc to scripts/docproc. > >> This causes docproc to only be built for *doc targets rather than every > >> time the kernel is compiled. > >> > >> Patches also attached as requested by Michal Marek. > > > > > > That's disappointing (the attachments). Why was this requested? > > > > See Documentation/CodingStyle, section 7: > > > > "No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments. Just plain text." > > and a couple of lines later: > "Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask > you to re-send them using MIME." > > Which is exactly what happened here - the patches had missing or excess > leading space and in some cases a context line was missing. So instead > of manually reconstructing the patches, I asked Peter to resend them as > attachments.
OK, thanks for explaining.
> BUT - I didn't request to split this patch into seven pieces. Splitting > patches into smaller parts is desired, but each part has to be self > contained and not break stuff when the later parts are not applied. So > when moving a .c file, then the corespoding Makefile changes need to be > contained in the same patch. No need to resend the patch now, I'll fold > the patches into one again, but please consider this next time.
Yes, a few of them could be merged IMO.
> > Instead, the saved file contains lines like > > this (below) and each patch 2 times (inline and attachment). > > Yeah, only sending the attachment would be better in this case.
agreed.
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