Re: [PATCH 0/29] My patch queue for memorystick subsystem

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Oct 25 2010 - 12:08:10 EST


On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Alex Dubov <oakad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Normally, functional
> patches should precede the cosmetic one, so that the functionality can be
> discussed first.

More usually it's the other way around, actually: cleanups come first.

Because the cleanups are usually uncontroversial, and because
substantive changes against cleaner code are easier to
review/understand and because the substantive changes are then easier
to revert or fix.
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