On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:05:16AM +0200, Zoltan Kelemen wrote:
> On 29 jun 2012 09:24 "Dan Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Gar...  Don't do this.  :/  Each bullet point here should be a
> > separate patch.  Please break it apart and resend.
> 
> I understand a large patch is harder to audit than small incremental changes, 
> but the patch was the result of a code rewrite, where I attempted to 
> summarize the changes in large in the bulleted list. There isn't a one-to-one 
> correspondence between a bullet and a change in the code. Breaking the 
> rewrite into small pieces would not only be quite hard but to some extent 
> even more confusing to audit since you risk to see the leaves instead of the 
> tree.
> 

We've done this before.  We can help you break it apart.

Step 1: Change all the existing spinlocks to spin_lock_bh().
Step 2: Do all the white space changes.
Step 3: Shuffle the global variable declarations around.

That's half the patch gone already.

regards,
dan carpenter

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