Re: [PATCH] kcalloc: Re-order the first two out-of-order args tokcalloc().

[Stefan Richter]

Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 12/9/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> normally what i would do but, in the case of that patch, there are
>> five files affected, *all* of which are in totally different
>> subsystems (macintosh, net, scsi, usb, sunrpc).  are you suggesting
>> that up to 5 different people be CC'ed?
>>
>> and what about source-wide aesthetic changes that might touch dozens
>> or hundreds of files?
> 
> Well, it depends. There are no fixed rules in the art of patch
> feeding. FWIW, I probably would send this patch just to akpm too.

Yes, patches like this one are no big deal. But being involved in subsystem
maintenance, I find patches split up per subsystem much easier to handle.
Ccing the subsystem maintainers doen't make much sens if you don't split the
patch for them to integrate separately.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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