From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] More useful types in the linux kernel
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:18:08 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1607221916350.4131@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15901.1469185546@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, David Howells wrote:
> Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> > > I can resurrect irq_flags_t but there is no procedure for merging 1MB+ diffs
> > > without spending whole life splitting and emailing maintainers.
> >
> > I think the procedure is that you have a script (e.g. coccinelle) to make such
> > patch and Linus applies it himself just before/after rc1.
>
> Can coccinelle manage changing the local variable declaration, especially if
> someone does:
>
> unsigned long flags, fred;
>
> where fred is unrelated.
Recent versions of Coccinelle should allow this. Older versions would
crash, so you would at least know that there was a problem.
julia
>
> But, on the other hand, it should be possible to compile test very easily if
> irq_flags_t is a typedef'd struct.
>
> David
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-19 15:32 Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-19 17:31 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-19 18:52 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-19 20:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-20 15:53 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-20 17:04 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] [TECH TOPIC] Support (or move towards to) LLVM Jiri Kosina
2016-07-20 18:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-07-20 18:52 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-21 9:54 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-21 13:41 ` Shuah Khan
2016-07-21 14:02 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-21 16:21 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-23 3:28 ` Behan Webster
2016-07-21 18:38 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-21 20:47 ` Paul Turner
2016-07-26 11:22 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-19 21:08 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] More useful types in the linux kernel James Bottomley
2016-07-20 0:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-20 7:32 ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-20 12:11 ` Jan Kara
2016-07-28 3:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-19 21:26 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-20 2:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-30 18:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-30 18:49 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-30 19:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-30 20:56 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-30 22:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-21 15:05 ` David Howells
2016-07-21 23:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-22 6:00 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-22 6:14 ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-22 13:57 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-22 14:40 ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-22 19:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-07-26 11:48 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-26 12:53 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-26 13:59 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-07-26 13:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-07-27 12:40 ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-27 13:25 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-27 13:33 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-27 17:21 ` Bird, Timothy
2016-08-01 22:17 ` Rob Herring
2016-08-12 1:29 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-08-11 15:44 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-08-12 0:38 ` NeilBrown
2016-08-12 20:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-08-12 3:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-08-12 4:01 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-12 4:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-08-12 5:29 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-12 5:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-12 6:04 ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-12 6:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-12 6:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-08-12 6:37 ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-12 5:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-08-04 7:15 ` NeilBrown
2016-08-04 11:19 ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-22 7:03 ` David Howells
2016-07-22 10:10 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-07-22 10:13 ` David Howells
2016-07-22 10:22 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-07-22 10:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-22 11:05 ` David Howells
2016-07-22 17:18 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2016-07-22 18:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-22 19:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-28 3:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-28 7:12 ` David Howells
2016-08-02 10:48 ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-04 11:31 ` David Woodhouse
2016-08-04 12:07 ` Jani Nikula
2016-07-22 11:19 ` David Howells
2016-07-22 12:44 ` Linus Walleij
2016-07-22 13:26 ` David Howells
2016-08-12 4:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <871t1ulfvz.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
2016-08-12 5:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-12 6:23 ` NeilBrown
[not found] ` <87y442jytb.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
2016-08-15 23:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-12 6:23 ` NeilBrown
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