Re: [PATCH] Make all it87 drivers SMP safe.

[Guenter Roeck]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:03:35PM -0400, Natarajan Gurumoorthy wrote:
> Guenter,
>        This patch patch applies a common fix to all IT87 driver. Separating it
> into 2 patches (one for drivers/hwmon and one for drivers/watchdog) does not
> seem to be the right thing to do. I think having all the patches in one file
> makes it easier to understand the rationale behind the patch. The
> it87_io_lock.c and it87_io_lock.h files are in drivers/watchdog directory and
> the lock defined in it is needed by the changes in drivers/hwmon/it87.c
> 

I dislike the idea of a single patch crossing multiple subsystems. Maybe you'll
find another maintainer accepting your change as a single patch, but I won't.

That doesn't mean that the patches would have to be committed into multiple trees.
That is for the subsystem maintainers to sort out, and a different issue.

Thanks,
Guenter
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