Re: [PATCH/RESEND] drivers/net/ethernet: dev_alloc_skb to netdev_alloc_skb

From: Pradeep A. Dalvi
Date: Mon Jan 23 2012 - 14:37:54 EST


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:53 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Pradeep A. Dalvi" <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:43:10 +0530
>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:23 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:40:34 -0800
>>>
>>>> Perhaps you should break this large patch
>>>> into multiple separate patches.
>>>
>>> Agreed, this patch is way too large especially for what is obviously
>>> turning out to be a very non-trivial transformation in some cases
>>> and also new patch submitters should generally avoid large patches
>>> like this.
>>
>> Acked! Will try to separate out trivial & non-trivial changes.
>> Although, still trivial changes would be big enough. And at the same
>> time, splitting changes into 118 patches might turn out to be
>> cumbersome for review.
>
> We didn't say to create 118 patches, we're talking about on the
> order of 4 or 5 patches.

Certainly! Would resubmit the patch splitting across couple of them. Thanks!
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