Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751515Ab1CPG1Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:27:16 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:41183 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751091Ab1CPG1G convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:27:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=FGocGVsrQ17h2pMemell6JZqCIP7RA61rcWKpe2RLq87gu6MrWKq82NNbGytK9slCu 9lmUuF5mfG5kZyVy8414trDEVaT65d7xEJ9DBpIMKn589eGbMYMe0gFnYfzFhBbtiyWT 59G7c1DHifqBjdfmOBZCi03G1kWit5bOu8+4g= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110316042452.21452.qmail@science.horizon.com> References: <1300244636.3128.426.camel@calx> <20110316042452.21452.qmail@science.horizon.com> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:27:05 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: OZ1xM8TV4yS5rwFv_PL86H25ux4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] drivers/char/random: Split out __get_random_int From: Pekka Enberg To: George Spelvin Cc: mpm@selenic.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 15 On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:24 AM, George Spelvin wrote: >> You should really try to put all the uncontroversial bits of a series >> first. > > Is that really a more important principle than putting related changes > together? ?I get the idea, but thought it made more sense to put > all the slub.c changes together. It it is more important because we might end up merging only the non-controversial bits - at least for now. -- 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/