[PATCH 000/112] staging: comedi: remove subdevice pointer math

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Sep 6 16:42:12 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:35:26AM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:11 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:11:41PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >> This is a repost of the big patch to remove all the subdevice pointer
> >> math. The big patch is now broken up into pieces that only change
> >> single files.
> >> 
> >> Let me know if they should be combined into larger chuncks.
> >> 
> >> The s626 and jr3_pci drivers still need a bit of work so they are
> >> not included in this cleanup.
> >> 
> >> H Hartley Sweeten (112):
> >
> > While 112 individual patches might have been a bit extreme, I think it
> > was the right thing to do here, thanks for breaking it all up.  They are
> > now all applied to the staging-next tree, thanks for doing this.
> 
> Yah, it was quite a bit of traffic... I did limit the To and Cc to just the
> devel list and you to try and limit the noise. Hope that was the right
> thing to do.

Yes, that was fine.

> BTW, should I keep copying future patches to LKML or just the devel
> list, you, and Ian Abbott?

I'd stick with keeping lkml off of the cc:, I doubt they care about
these patches.  I can't answer for Ian, but I know I want a copy to
ensure that I get them properly.

> Also, I'm not sure why someone complained (LOUDLY) about the
> emails. Oh well...

Happens every time a large patch set is sent out, don't worry about it :)

greg k-h



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