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

[Arvind Yadav]

Hi Joe,


On Tuesday 11 July 2017 11:17 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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
Thank you, I will follow as per your suggestion.

Regards,
~arvind