Johannes, > Ultimately it's up to Martin and James but I don't see a hughe benefit > in having it all in a separate patch. Generally speaking, I prefer driver maintainers to be able to sign off on changes to their code. So I tend to lean towards a per-driver grouping. However, having a bazillion identical commit messages is also really annoying. So for automated changes like this, I'd rather just have a single patch. It needs to have a really good and comprehensive commit messages that justifies the (sub) tree-wide change, though... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering