[PATCH3 5/6] staging: brcm80211: adapt driver sources to renamed source module
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Tue Mar 1 21:14:07 UTC 2011
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:44:37PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:26:18 +0100, Dan Carpenter
> <error27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:56:58AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> >>wlc_mac80211 has been renamed to wlc_main. This commit makes the
> >>required changes to the other driver files to make it compile again.
> >>
> >
> >It would have been better to combine this one with 4/6 so that the
> >code compiles after every commit. Otherwise it breaks git bisect.
> >
>
> I thought I followed your guideline in splitting them.
> Quoting:""
> I know that we say you should run checkpatch on all patches, but moving
> code around is the exception. If it had just moved the code around
> without the changes, then we have automated ways of reviewing that.
> ""
Moving stuff around in a patch and keeping it separate is great, but you
can not override the most important rule here, NEVER BREAK THE BUILD!
thanks,
greg k-h
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