I have a large patch in the 2000 lines. What to do?

[Ivan Safonov]

On 10/10/2015 02:20 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 12:12:44PM -0700, Anish Kumar wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 9, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Ivan Safonov <insafonov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I have a large patch in the 2000 lines, which replaces the macro BITn to
>>> BIT(n) in multiple files.
>> I will recommend sending RFC patch first and
>> Get the community comments.
> No, we just ignore RFC patches, we have too many "real" patches to deal
> with.
>
>> If they like your patch then divide the patch based on logic rather than lines of codes.
>>> Is it worth to split this patch into several parts?
> Yes.
>
>>> Is it sufficient to place the changes in each file in a separate part of
>>> patchset?
> Make it one-patch-per-driver.
>
> But note, cleanup patches like this are usually ignored by most
> subsystems, be aware that this type of thing is only usually accepted in
> the drivers/staging/ portion of the kernel.
>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h

The catch is that this patch is only to one driver.