RE: [lustre-devel] [PATCH 1/3] staging: lustre: checkpatch cleanups for nidstring.c

From: Simmons, James A.
Date: Tue Nov 03 2015 - 18:56:29 EST


>Yeah. That is often the fastest way to fix all the checkpatch warnings.
>
>Checkpatch warnings are pretty mechanical. Just send like 100 patches
>at a time until everything is fixed. Don't overthink. Say your patch
>breaks the alignment then you have to fix that, but otherwise only fix
>one thing at a time. Sometimes people will ask you to fix something
>else on the same line, but just say "I didn't introduce that, but yes I
>am planning to fix that in a later patchset since I am following the
>one thing per patch rule."
>
>Don't feel shame about sending many small patches. We pretty much merge
>everything.

It was the sense of it taking forever with that amount of patches needed with
the one file approach. Looking at the back log of fixes its not as bad as I thought
for libcfs/LNet. Once those fixes are merged the style cleanups can happen
pretty quickly.

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