Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:60641 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758532Ab0BRQMe (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:12:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:06:36 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Larry Finger Cc: Frederic Leroy , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] staging: rtl8192su: remove dead code Message-ID: <20100218160636.GK21785@kroah.com> References: <20100217091920.083a3dd3@houba> <4B7C1E82.4030005@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4B7C1E82.4030005@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:51:14AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > On 02/17/2010 02:19 AM, Frederic Leroy wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This patch removes some dead code in rtl8192su driver in staging against linux-2.6-stable tree. > > Should I split it into smaller chunk ? > > As it is in staging, should I post it to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ? > > At 1400+ lines, the patch is a little large. I would recommend that you separate > out the fixes for "ifdef RTL8190P" and "ifdef RTL8190U" into one patch, and the > changes for "ifdef TO_DO_LIST" into a couple of patches. That should get the > line count to below 500 in the individual patches. I agree, that would be a better way to do this. thanks, greg k-h