From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 005/491] ARM/UNIPHIER ARCHITECTURE: Use fallthrough;
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:47:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200312134712.GE7159@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa07756217b3c033c7e5af495a03ff5655947450.camel@perches.com>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 02:37:31AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> As I have suggested a few times, better still
> would be to have a mechanism for scripted patches
> applied possibly as single treewide patch.
>
> Likely applied only at an -rc1.
>
> The stated negatives to a treewide mechanism
> have been difficulty to backport to -stable.
Any time we do a massive, disruptive change to the code base, it's
going to cause problems to -stable. It means that bug fix patches
won't necessarily auto-apply, and some will require manual fixups
afterwards
Given that this change doesn't really fix any bugs, I'd have to ask
the question --- is it *worth* it? We really need to apply a certain
amount of cost/benefit analysis around this.
If it were really important, the thing we could do is to apply a
single treewide patch at some point after the merge window. I'd
suggest after -rc2, myself, but reasonable people can differ. And
then, if it were *really* important we could run the same script on
the stable kernels.
But for changing "/* fallthrough */" to "fallthrough;"
Does this ***really*** matter? Why are we tying ourselves up in knots
trying to do this all at once?
- Ted
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[not found] <cover.1583896344.git.joe@perches.com>
2020-03-11 4:51 ` [PATCH -next 005/491] ARM/UNIPHIER ARCHITECTURE: Use fallthrough; Joe Perches
2020-03-11 5:15 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-03-11 14:31 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-12 8:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-12 9:02 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-03-12 9:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-12 9:37 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-12 13:47 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-03-12 14:15 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-12 9:03 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-11 4:51 ` [PATCH -next 006/491] ARM/RISCPC " Joe Perches
2020-03-12 10:11 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-03-12 10:19 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-11 4:51 ` [PATCH -next 007/491] KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR ARM/ARM64 (KVM/arm, KVM/arm64): " Joe Perches
2020-03-11 4:51 ` [PATCH -next 008/491] ARM/CIRRUS LOGIC EP93XX ARM ARCHITECTURE: " Joe Perches
2020-03-13 19:26 ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-03-11 4:51 ` [PATCH -next 009/491] ARM/Amlogic Meson SoC support: " Joe Perches
2020-03-11 4:51 ` [PATCH -next 010/491] ARM/SAMSUNG EXYNOS ARM ARCHITECTURES: " Joe Perches
2020-03-13 14:26 ` Wolfram Sang
2020-03-14 1:17 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-05-13 11:59 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2020-03-11 4:51 ` [PATCH -next 012/491] ARM/ZTE ARCHITECTURE: " Joe Perches
[not found] ` <2e6818291503f032e7662f1fa45fb64c7751a7ae.1583896348.git.joe@perches.com>
2020-03-11 8:46 ` [PATCH -next 011/491] ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT: " Marc Gonzalez
2020-03-11 14:30 ` Joe Perches
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