* Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > There's a catch-22 issue here either way, for instance this rename patch has > >> > been being baked for probably 2 releases already but the difficulty has been > >> > trying to find the appropriate time to merge it without conflict. > >> > > >> > If you do it in the beginning of the merge window, you have to ask yourself in > >> > what tree it will be done. Since subsystems are topic specific that means that > >> > subsystem will end up having a conflict at the end of the merge window. > >> > >> Yes it's a special case. I think the best way of handling such things is to get > >> them in to Linus either right at the end of the merge window or the day after he > >> releases -rc1. This is when most people's trees are mostly empty. > > > > Yes, that was the plan last time around as well - but the end of the merge window > > is when we have the least maintainer bandwidth as well ... > > > > Anyway, I applied most of the patches (sans the rename), so the rename patch > > should be a lot simpler to execute at the right moment this time around. > > Ingo, should we try this again some time? I have some ideas on how to > make these sorts of changes easier to manage in the future, it > involves having an automatic git rebase option to use Coccinelle for > you if a patch is annotated to have been completely done with > Coccinelle, but future tooling is needed for that [0]. In the meantime > I (or you) can simply run the script at any point in time to catch all > the names as-is in the kernel / point in time we decide to merge this > simple rename. > > [0] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/linux-oven So beyond the rename, can we also keep the old names as compatibility helpers, with a #define mapping them to the new names? If so then please (re-)send the changes. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
