Re: [RFC] backports: replace netlink portid by semantic patch

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On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 15:39 +0200, Eliad Peller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:52 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 17:48 +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> >> > How fast would it be when one more semantic patch would be added would
> >> > it increase in the same way? I am wondering if this is a constant
> >> > increase or does it depend on the number of patches.
> >>
> >> I believe it's # of patches because the slowest part seems to be
> >> searching all files for matches.
> >
> > FWIW, I still think it's worth it, especially the nl80211 patch breaks
> > all the time ...
> >
> maybe limit it to specific files/dirs?

Possible, but difficult, everything might use netlink. I suppose we
could grep first but if that's faster spatch should just be made faster
for the initial grep step I guess.

johannes

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