Re: [PATCH 0290/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 08/02/2016 09:31 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 06:57:11PM +0800, Baole Ni wrote:
>> I find that the developers often just specified the numeric value
>> when calling a macro which is defined with a parameter for access permission.
>> As we know, these numeric value for access permission have had the corresponding macro,
>> and that using macro can improve the robustness and readability of the code,
>> thus, I suggest replacing the numeric parameter with the macro.
> 
> Please split these up and send them independently to the relevant
> maintainers with sensible subject lines - a single 1000+ patch series is
> far too large and you're CCing random people so it's hard to tell which
> patches are relevant (for example the batch I'm replying to here are for
> the input subsystem which I don't maintain so I'm not 100% sure why I'm
> being copied here).
> 
> With this sort of thing it's often best to send one series per directory
> or something similar.
> 

I would recommend just adding whatever script you used to find all of
these to patchcheck or coccinelle, then let people familiar with each
subsystem make and submit the fix-ups for each subsystem. You won't get
1000+ patches to your name, but the work still gets done and you avoid
bothering a lot of people.

(I got about several of these for files I've never touched :/)

Thanks,
Andrew