>Yeah.  That is often the fastest way to fix all the checkpatch warnings.
>
>Checkpatch warnings are pretty mechanical.  Just send like 100 patches
>at a time until everything is fixed.  Don't overthink.  Say your patch
>breaks the alignment then you have to fix that, but otherwise only fix
>one thing at a time.  Sometimes people will ask you to fix something
>else on the same line, but just say "I didn't introduce that, but yes I
>am planning to fix that in a later patchset since I am following the
>one thing per patch rule."
>
>Don't feel shame about sending many small patches.  We pretty much merge
>everything.

It was the sense of it taking forever with that amount of patches needed with
the one file approach. Looking at the back log of fixes its not as bad as I 
thought
for libcfs/LNet. Once those fixes are merged the style cleanups can happen
pretty quickly.

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