On 3 February 2014 08:40, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: >> On 31 January 2014 15:53, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> 186 files changed, 376 insertions(+), 415 deletions(-) >> >> No objection in principle, but I think this is going to be >> hideous merge pain since it touches a huge range of files. >> Could you split it up into separate patches that could >> reasonably go in via the appropriate submaintainer trees? > > No merge pain at all if you simply rerun the included Coccinelle patch!
Yes, but that requires me to find, install, learn about and use Coccinelle. > Splitting the patch may shift some pain from the choke point (you) to > submaintainers and me. I don't mind the splitting pain. I do mind the > "chase the nominal maintainer of obscure corner" pain. > > If you really want it split: what about splitting off just the busy > and/or well-maintained subsystems? Yes, that's fine. You can put the "miscellaneous leftovers" parts through trivial if you like. I just dislike single touches-entire-world patches if they're not absolutely necessary. thanks -- PMM
