On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:46:11 +0000 Grant Likely <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Bill Pemberton <[email protected]> wrote: >> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is no longer an optional setting. In order to remove >> > it as on option code paths that check CONFIG_HOTPLUG will removed >> > along with the attributes __devexit_p, __devexit, __devinitconst, and >> > __devinitdata. >> > >> > I'll save the list from the mailbomb of this huge patchset. The >> > patches themselves are going to Greg KH for the driver core tree. >> > >> > >> > Bill Pemberton (493): >> [...] >> > 2942 files changed, 11645 insertions(+), 12116 deletions(-) >> >> So, I've got no problem with the reason for the change and I don't >> even think you need my ack for the bits that I maintain (though you >> have it if you want it). However, this looks like it is going to be >> /painful/. First of all it will touch a huge number of files in the >> tree. Yes the change is trivial, but it will require manual fixups on >> a lot of patches. > > Yeah, this is dopey. Send the script to Linus and ask him to run it > seven seconds before he releases -rc1, when everyone's trees are > empty(ish). Or send him a single megapatch at that time.
Yes please. I'm all on board with doing this in one fell swoop. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
