On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 01:55:39AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Wim, > > > > With heavy support by Julia Lawall, I created a number of coccinelle scripts > > to auto-convert watchdog platform drivers to use devm functions. The result > > is quite impressive - many drivers won't even need remove functions anymore > > after the conversion. > > > > Question is now how to submit the patches. There are 12 rule files affecting > > a total of 62 drivers. Should I submit one patch per driver (62 patches), > > one patch per rule (12), or one patch per rule file per driver (183) ? > > One per driver. > > > Also, how should I refer to the rules ? The total number of rule lines > > is more than 1,000, which seems to be a bit much for the commit log (even > > though not all rules apply to all files). > > No need, perhaps some URL? > Yes, that is what I ended up doing - I created a repository on github and pushed the semantic patches as well as the scripts used to generate the actual patches into it. I am going to reference that repository in the patches, together with a summary of the changes made. An interesting exercise is to let the semantic patches run on the entire kernel. It generates almost 1,500 patches. 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
