Re: Auto-conversion of watchdog drivers to use devm functions

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Wim,
>
> With heavy support by Julia Lawall, I created a number of coccinelle scripts
> to auto-convert watchdog platform drivers to use devm functions. The result
> is quite impressive - many drivers won't even need remove functions anymore
> after the conversion.
>
> Question is now how to submit the patches. There are 12 rule files affecting
> a total of 62 drivers. Should I submit one patch per driver (62 patches),
> one patch per rule (12), or one patch per rule file per driver (183) ?

One per driver.

> Also, how should I refer to the rules ? The total number of rule lines
> is more than 1,000, which seems to be a bit much for the commit log (even
> though not all rules apply to all files).

No need, perhaps some URL?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko