Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:32:08 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [CFT/PATCH] give sound/oss/trident a holiday cleanup for 2.6 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Thirty separate patches is OK. >> >>We have scripts to handle "patchbombs". > > > Yes and no. > > Thirty separate patches make sense if they are independent and really do > conceptually different things. Then it makes sense to have them as > separate checkins, and be able to tell people "ok, try undoing that one, > maybe that's the problem". > > However, if they are all just "fix silly bugs in xxx", then I'd much > rather see it as one big patch. Having it split up into "fix bug on line > 50" and "fix bug on line 75" just doesn't make any sense - it only makes > the patch history harder to follow.
There's certainly a middle ground. For drivers I generally request that bug fixes for separate bugs be split up, since inevitably one bug fix out of twenty breaks for somebody on that somebody's weird hardware.
Jeff
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