Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:42:11 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] notifiers: split notifier.h into subsystem headers | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:35:17 +0800
> Now we define all kinds of notifiers in notifier.h, this is not > necessary at all, since different subsystems use different > notifiers, they are almost non-related with each other. > > This can also save much build time. Suppose I add a new netdevice > event, really I don't have to recompile all the source, just network > related. Without this patch, all the source will be recompiled. > > I move the notify events near to their subsystem notifier registers, > so that they can be found more easily. > > In case of conflicts, I hope Andrew Morton would take the whole > patchset, rather than different subsystem maintainers take their own. > > Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
For networking bits:
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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