On Sun, 27 Sep 2020, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 19:08 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > I end up with 208 patches. I'm not sure that sending them all at once > > would be a good idea... > > Last I looked the diffstat for comma -> semicolon was: > > 234 files changed, 509 insertions(+), 509 deletions(-) > > So it would be nearly 1 patch per individual file, I have 282 files. > > Greg KH does send hundreds of patches for -stable at a time. > > So, maybe or maybe not send them all at once. > Maybe send it in batches of 25 or so. > > There's no single right way to do this. > > Maybe put up a git tree somewhere and let the > kernel-robot test compilation. I compiled all but about 15 and checked those 15 an extra time. I'll try the small batch approach to get started. thanks, julia > (A nicety might be for the kernel-robot to have some > option to test pre and post compilation object code > differences with an optional report) > > When I automated 491 patches for /* fallthrough */ to > fallthrough;, the robot caught a couple problems which > was great. > > https://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/trivial-mods.git/shortlog/refs/heads/20200310_fallthrough_2 > > I only posted the first ~30 patches though with > about 50% acceptance. Gustavo Silva picked up the > effort and did a great job. Eventually, a single > treewide patch was posted and accepted by Linus for > this though after dozens of individual patches went > through various maintainer trees: > > $ git log --shortstat -1 df561f6688fe > commit df561f6688fef775baa341a0f5d960becd248b11 > Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun Aug 23 17:36:59 2020 -0500 > > treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword > > Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with > the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary > fall-through markings when it is the case. > > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=> > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 1148 files changed, 2667 insertions(+), 2737 deletions(-) > > >
