Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 09:06:36AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 08.07.16 at 16:17, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:21:52AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> For single items being collected this should be preferred as being more
> >> typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to
> >> variable match) and more efficient (requiring one less parameter to be
> >> passed).
> >> 
> >> 1: xenbus: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 2: xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 3: xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 4: xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> v2: Avoid commit messages to continue from subjects. Group into a series.
> > 
> > To confuse this, Roger and I are the block sub-maintainers, which
> > when we are happy, I send to Jens, while the rest go through Boris,David, 
> > and Juergen.
> 
> Which is why originally I had sent all of these separately. Yet David
> was pretty unhappy about that.

Aye!
I am not critizing, just saying that this is getting complicated and you
are in the unfortunate situation to have to deal with this - so want
to apoligize for you having to go through this gauntlet.