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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: amwang@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] notifiers: split notifier.h into subsystem headers
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:42:11 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110621.234211.421102945649677953.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308724522-32461-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com>

From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:35:17 +0800

> Now we define all kinds of notifiers in notifier.h, this is not
> necessary at all, since different subsystems use different
> notifiers, they are almost non-related with each other.
> 
> This can also save much build time. Suppose I add a new netdevice
> event, really I don't have to recompile all the source, just network
> related. Without this patch, all the source will be recompiled.
> 
> I move the notify events near to their subsystem notifier registers,
> so that they can be found more easily.
> 
> In case of conflicts, I hope Andrew Morton would take the whole
> patchset, rather than different subsystem maintainers take their own.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>

For networking bits:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22  6:35 [PATCH 0/5] notifiers: split notifier.h into subsystem headers Amerigo Wang
2011-06-22  6:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] cpu: move cpu notifiers into cpu.h Amerigo Wang
2011-06-22  6:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] net: move netdevice notifiers into netdevice.h Amerigo Wang
2011-06-22  6:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] sys: move reboot notifiers into reboot.h Amerigo Wang
2011-06-22  6:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] pm: move pm notifiers into suspend.h Amerigo Wang
2011-06-22  6:35 ` Amerigo Wang
2011-06-22 19:49   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-06-22 19:49   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-06-23  5:03     ` Cong Wang
2011-06-23  5:03     ` Cong Wang
2011-06-23 12:04       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-06-23 12:04       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-06-23 20:24       ` Pavel Machek
2011-06-23 20:24       ` Pavel Machek
2011-06-22  6:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] vt: move vt notifiers into vt.h Amerigo Wang
2011-06-22  6:42 ` David Miller [this message]

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