On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:12:44AM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > Isn't it a timing problem? > I mean, I guess that codying style fixes are OK if there is a good coordination > with the maintainer and patches are sent with the right timing in > order to not cause > problems in the process. But because running some kind of mechanical script and fixing up the problems is relatively mindless, it doesn't *add* anything. Only the maintainer knows when it is a reasonably convenient time to fix all of the problems, or when to fix portions of the code that is being reworked anyway --- and the maintainer can just run the script by himself, for himself. The patch doesn't actually save him much work, and in some cases, is actually more work than simply regenerating the fixes *after* the other patches waiting in his patch queue have been applied (but of course, it screws up everyone else's patches that haven't been submitted to the maintainer yet). In some cases, it's worth it. In other (most) cases, it really isn't. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
