On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:03:35PM -0400, Natarajan Gurumoorthy wrote: > Guenter, > This patch patch applies a common fix to all IT87 driver. Separating it > into 2 patches (one for drivers/hwmon and one for drivers/watchdog) does not > seem to be the right thing to do. I think having all the patches in one file > makes it easier to understand the rationale behind the patch. The > it87_io_lock.c and it87_io_lock.h files are in drivers/watchdog directory and > the lock defined in it is needed by the changes in drivers/hwmon/it87.c > I dislike the idea of a single patch crossing multiple subsystems. Maybe you'll find another maintainer accepting your change as a single patch, but I won't. That doesn't mean that the patches would have to be committed into multiple trees. That is for the subsystem maintainers to sort out, and a different issue. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
