Re: [guv 00/16] [RFC] percpu: Replace __get_cpu_var uses throughout the kernel

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On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:

> * It would be a lot easier to route the patches if each had cc's to
>   the maintainers of the affected subsystems.

So the drivers patch needs to CC all driver maintainers?

There must be some easier way to get this done.

> * Dunno what's the convention around conccinelle scripts but do we
>   need to keep them around if the accessor being converted gets
>   removed at the end of the series?
>
> How do you want to route the patches?  I'm gonna apply the second
> patch which updates __verify_pcpu_ptr() to the percpu tree right away
> and push it to Linus early during the merge window so that pushing
> other patches through different trees from there on isn't too painful.

Not sure how to do this. Thats why its an RFC. I cced Andrew because he
usually knows how to deal with massive patches like this.

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