Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] rust: use strict provenance APIs

[Benno Lossin]

On Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM CET, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 09:34:42AM +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> [...]
>> > The rest Rust code changes look good to me. Although I would suggest you
>> > to split this patch into several patches: you can do the conversion from
>> > "as" pattern to provenance API one file by one file, and this make it
>> > easier for people to review. And after the conversions are done, you can
>> > introduce the Makefile changes.
>> 
>> I think it's fine to do several of the `as` conversions in a single
>
> Well, "fine" != "recommended", right? ;-) If the patch was split,
> reviewers would be able to give Reviewed-by to individual patches that
> looks fine trivially. Then it's easier to make progress every iteration,
> and also allows partially applying the changes. Of course it doesn't
> have to be file-by-file.

While I see your point, in this case splitting file-by-file is too much.
v4 has: 9 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-). I've seen
much bigger changes that do smaller things like this patch.

At around 150 lines added + deleted I find it more and more difficult.

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Cheers,
Benno