On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:27:09AM +0800, Xin Long wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:53 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > > From: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> > > Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 07:43:25 -0500 > > > >> These all look reasonably good, but it seems before we accept them, > >> there should be an additional patch that actually makes use of the code. > >> I presume that is forthcomming? > > > > This all comes from my asking that the original huge set of patches be > > split up. > > > > People always just rush this kind of work and never think about laying > > out the resubmission properly. > > > > One should always only submit new interfaces along with an actual use > > because only with a use can we properly review whether the new > > interface is good or not. > > I was trying to keep the same order with rfc, but it seems not a good > idea, will resplit, thanks.
Not sure how much it can help but one idea it to split it into requester and requested sides. Do the first patches/patchsets to make Linux able to accept/handle requests, and then to issue requests. Marcelo
