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On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 16:03 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:27 AM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 15:20 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > Appendix: Other topics that were brought up
> > > [...]
> > > Developing across multiple areas of the kernel
> > 
> > I've got a couple of extra possibilities
> > [...]
> > 2) Trivial patches (again).
> 
> Given that the "trivial patches" topic's discussion ended up boiling
> down to a discussion about developing across multiple areas of the
> kernel, maybe we should make space for a "tree-wide changes"
> discussion? Even after the earlier thread about it, I tripped all over
> this in the last couple months while doing timer conversions, so I
> would at least have some more strong opinions on the subject. ;)

It's a ripe area (like months old limburger cheese) for discussion.

There's currently no good way to do tree-wide changes.