Re: [PATCH 0/5] notifiers: split notifier.h into subsystem headers

[David Miller]

From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:35:17 +0800

> Now we define all kinds of notifiers in notifier.h, this is not
> necessary at all, since different subsystems use different
> notifiers, they are almost non-related with each other.
> 
> This can also save much build time. Suppose I add a new netdevice
> event, really I don't have to recompile all the source, just network
> related. Without this patch, all the source will be recompiled.
> 
> I move the notify events near to their subsystem notifier registers,
> so that they can be found more easily.
> 
> In case of conflicts, I hope Andrew Morton would take the whole
> patchset, rather than different subsystem maintainers take their own.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>

For networking bits:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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