Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:13:49 -0400
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] move handling of setuid/gid bits from VFS into
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:49:09 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> First thanks a lot for doing this work, it's been long needed.
> 
> Second please don't send out that many patches.  We encourage people
> to split things into small patches when the changes are logially
> separated.  Which these are not - it's a flag day change (which btw
> is fine despite the rants soe people spewed in reply to this), so it
> should be one single patch. (Or one for all mainline filesystems +
> one per fs only in -mm to make Andrew's life a little easier if you
> really care.)

Thanks. I debated about how best to split these up. A coworker
mentioned that Andrew had tossed him back a single patch that
touched several mainline filesystems and asked him to break it 
up. I took that to mean that the patches should generally be split
out, but I guess I took that too far ;-)

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
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