Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 34

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:11:52 +0200


Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
> Two comments --
>
> Could you please _not_ just rearrange comments or change style in ide-cd
> just for the sake cleaning, it's very annoying when one has patches that
> need to be adapted every time. And it serves zero purpose. Thanks.

Please do me a small favour and use an editor which highlights trailing white
spaces please? The bandwidth waste caused by this is an waste of energy
and causes a significant amount of environmental pollution...

> I changed the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI stuff to always include the pci_dev
> in the hwgroup, and just leave it at NULL if not defined. This cleans up
> some ifdefs, I think this is the better approach.

Agreed.

> I'll sync the latest tcq stuff with you later today, it gets the
> enabling right etc.

Fine. I would like to go on with the request handling changes in ide-cd.c
thereafter.

> And a last comment not directly related to this particular patch -- when
> you include something and change minor stuff along the way, please do it
> in two steps. One that includes a patch, and a second version that
> changes what you want to change. That makes merging _so_ much easier.
> Thanks.

OK - sorry. I try already to make the granularity of the
patches smaller. Since I always apply patches line by line I wasn't aware of
your "modus operandi".

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