Re: [RFC PATCH 03/43] ptrace: change signature of arch_ptrace()

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sun Aug 29 2010 - 09:41:19 EST


On Friday 27 August 2010 18:20:55 Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/