Re: [PATCH 2/9] GenWQE: Remove option to select name

From: Frank Haverkamp
Date: Tue Nov 05 2013 - 04:00:17 EST


Hi Ryan,

Am Dienstag, den 05.11.2013, 08:55 +1100 schrieb Ryan Mallon:
> On 05/11/13 04:08, Frank Haverkamp wrote:
> > Selecting interface names via configuration option is obsolete.
>
> Don't do this. You are adding completely new code, so there is no reason
> to post a patch full of code that is known to be incorrect, followed by
> a set of patches fixing things. Just post the correct code to start
> with. This makes the git history cleaner, and makes the code easier to
> review.

Agreed.

> You can use tools like git interactive rebase to split your work into
> multiple patches. It should be quite easy for this because you mostly
> just want to break down things to the file level, so even:
>
> git reset --soft <your-first-commit>
>
> and then manually staging and commiting things from there would probably
> be enough. You can use git add --interactive to stage individual file
> hunks if you want to break things down further.

I have sent "Generic WorkQueue Engine (GenWQE) device driver (v6)" now
which hopefully is what you wanted.

Regards

Frank

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