[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] More useful types in the linux kernel

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 07/22/2016 12:22 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:13 PM, David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed, but please call them flags_t and flags64_t.
>>
>> Fine by me, though I was trying to avoid confusion with the argument to IRQ
>> munging functions.
>
> I can resurrect irq_flags_t but there is no procedure for merging 1MB+ diffs
> without spending whole life splitting and emailing maintainers.

I think the procedure is that you have a script (e.g. coccinelle) to 
make such patch and Linus applies it himself just before/after rc1.

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