Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures.

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 11 2017 - 01:47:59 EST


On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 11:11 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
>
> On Monday 10 July 2017 10:30 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 16:04 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> > > attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> > > working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work
> > > with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> >
> > I think it's good you are doing all of these.
> >
> > Instead of individually sending these patches, could you
> > please send a patch series for all of these attribute_group
> > patches with a cover letter at the same time?
> >
> > That could make it easier for a trivial maintainer to apply
> > all of these at once and not get some applied and others
> > ignored or dropped on the floor.
> >
>
> Once again, I will send all of patch together, But I have doubt. If it's
> having
> different maintainer. Example- 'net:' subsystem is having a different
> different
> maintainer. So do i need to add all the maintainer in single list. Which
> can confuse
> what patch is for what maintainer. Please suggest me.

Please send individual patches, one per maintainer/subsystem
as a series with a cover letter like:

[PATCH 0/N] treewide: constify attribute_group structures
[PATCH 1/N] chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group
[PATCH 2/N] chelsio: cxgb4: constify attribute_group
...
[PATCH N/N] subsystem: constify attribute_group