Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 19:00:16 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/71] arc: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm OK with this, but let's not do this as a hundred small patches, OK?
> 
> It doesn't help legibility or testing, so let's just do it in one big go.

Might make sense splitting it by the thing being removed, though - easier
to visually verify that it's doing the right thing when all replacements
are of the same sort...