Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2018 15:10:44 -0500 (EST) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cramfs: better MTD dependency expression |
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > Viro once told me that my cramfs pull requests could go either to him or > > to you. I have only this one patch at the moment, and since it depends > > on a commit that recently appeared in your tree I'm therefore sending it > > directly to you. > > Applied.
Thanks.
> Although I'm not entirely convinced that the simpler dependency is > easier to _read_ and understand. > > It is clearly simpler, though.
Probably depends on the mental representation you make of it. If you consider driver A depending on driver B then having A <= B in terms of build level dependency is pretty natural. Maybe it is just me but the alternative always gave me pause.
Nicolas
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