[PATCH] staging: comedi: cleanup alloc_subdevices

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:49:46PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> On Monday, June 11, 2012 5:44 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:07:41PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> >> 2, 3, and 4 probably go together. They all deal with the 'num_subdevices'
>> >>
>> >> 1 can be a separate patch as long as I don't do the rename.
>> >>
>> >> 5, 6, and 7 could all go together with the final rename of the function.
>> >>
>> >> Does that sound ok?
>> >
>> > No, why not just break it up into 7 different patches?  You are doing
>> > different things, which would you rather review for correctness, 7
>> > simple, tiny patches, or some that do multiple things at the same time
>> > that are bigger?
>>
>> Ok. I just posted the first one. It's still pretty big since it hits every
>> comedi driver file.
>>
>> Please ignore the first post. I fat-fingered the prototype in the header.
>> v2 is correct.
>>
>> Also, I have never done local commits to my Linux-next tree so I'm not
>> sure how to proceed with the incremental patches. If it's ok with you
>> I'll just wait for each patch to go into staging.
>
> Create a brach from the one you are working on:
>        git branch -b my_branch
> make a change and commit it
> commit another one
> and so on.
actually, there is a simple way to do that. Simply start from the big
commit, then

# git reset --soft HEAD^
# git reset

Then do 7 iterations of:

# git add -p

Adding or not relevant hunks for the current change to be committed,
eventually manually editing them if two or more change end up being
mangled together.

my 0.2c,
 - Arnaud

> then create the patches:
>        git format-patch original_branch_name..my_branch
> and use git send-email to send them off in order.
>
> Otherwise we are going to take 7 weeks when I apply one of your patches
> a week :)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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