On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 12:28 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > If anyone feels strongly about accepting such patches, then the right > > solution > > is to create a Coccinelle semantic patch to run over the whole kernel and > > get > > over with the churn once and for all. > > So applying a semantic patch like this to all .c files: > > @@ expression E; @@ > -sizeof E > +sizeof(E) > @@ expression E2; @@ > -sizeof((E2)) > +sizeof(E2) > > Produces the single patch below for the whole kernel - instead of generating > a > churn of 1,000+ patches ...
If this isn't a joke, a nicer way to submit this is by subsystem and not as a single huge patch. This allows subsystem maintainers to reduce patch contention as this patch already doesn't apply to -next.
