On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:01:21AM +0100, Arnaud Patard wrote: > Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches. One big patch is just > impossible to review (at least for me), please split it in fewer > chunks. This is not outrageously huge and actually well smaller than the "atoms" some other patches were split into. Ideally patches should be split such that each patch fixes one bug or adds one feature and such that applying only a part of a patch series does not result in a regression. The absolute size or number of patches at least to me is a secondary consideration. Ralf