Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753519Ab0H2NlQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:41:16 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:49929 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753146Ab0H2NlP (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:41:15 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Namhyung Kim Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 03/43] ptrace: change signature of arch_ptrace() Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:40:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35+; KDE/4.5.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Roland McGrath , Oleg Nesterov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1282902149-12991-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> <201008271628.40023.arnd@arndb.de> <87occof2mw.fsf@NHK-XNOTE.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> In-Reply-To: <87occof2mw.fsf@NHK-XNOTE.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008291540.55414.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:CQJ/dUstJmru3CU1K5a0MnyaBDcGdXOZgwmoZwaAX17 rTWNNiWDopDW/MR9XUniwLTNX6cs7gEsNZgZFo4scYxLIpAtbR JFxoeux4fJLzMtHlEhEiulUUwjz9Rab4sNmBTVwOPSkelC7gan Vckn0iMD0AAu1zJEY5e9CvMhKILOwS0jP+OHyLcrxePE/rfXx4 fIZgaYxtkfeG9umi4tt8A== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1232 Lines: 26 On Friday 27 August 2010 18:20:55 Namhyung Kim wrote: > Arnd Bergmann writes: > > Would it be possible to rearrange your patches so that you don't break > > anything in the middle? I think merging all the trivial 'change signature' > > patches into one would also make reviewing easier. Nobody in their > > right mind is looking through a full series of 43 patches, especially > > if they do not make sense on their own, but one patch that changes a > > function signature tree-wide would be looked at by many people and can > > be applied standalone. > > > > OK. Will combine those. > BTW, one thing I wonder is it will have huge CC list of arch maintainers > in commit message, so is it usual? or is there other way? I'd say you don't have to for a trivial patch such at this, as long as you keep linux-arch@vger.kernel.org on Cc, since that has all the arch maintainers. It also doesn't hurt to keep them all on Cc, since it would only be a single mail then. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/