Re: [PATCH v2 PING] kallsyms: new /proc/kallmodsyms with builtin modules and symbol sizes

[Jessica Yu]

+++ Nick Alcock [07/07/21 20:07 +0100]:
> On 7 Jul 2021, Jessica Yu uttered the following:
>
> > +++ Nick Alcock [06/07/21 20:33 +0100]:
> > > 15 files changed, 1309 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> >
> > This diffstat is seriously _enormous_. Please don't send patches of
> > this size and expect people to be willing to review :-(. Please break
> > this up into a logical sequence of smaller patches to help your
> > potential reviewers and resend with a cover letter.
>
> Heh, this is very project-dependent it seems. I've been told not to
> split up things so finely when sending series containing 3000+-line
> commits to various toolchain projects before :)

Huh, that's interesting :) 

> Since you are in the "slice finely" camp, I'll split it up a bunch and
> resend. (This will necessarily involve adding things in one commit to
> no obvious purpose in that commit, but I'll keep the intermediate stages
> building and booting, of course.)

Yes, the norm in the Linux kernel community is to split up large
patches into a logical sequence of smaller patches, this will help
reviewers a lot. Thanks in advance!