Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] fs: extract simple_pin/release_fs to separate files

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:54:18 +0200

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 02:42:56PM +0200, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> We will augment this family of functions with inode management.  To avoid
> littering include/linux/fs.h and fs/libfs.c, move them to a separate header,
> with a Kconfig symbol to enable them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <[email-masked]>

You have a lot of people on cc:, this is going to be hard for everyone
to review...

> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index d1398cef3b18..fc38a6f0fc11 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -288,12 +288,16 @@ config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
>  
>  config READABLE_ASM
>  	bool "Generate readable assembler code"
> -	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> -	help
> -	  Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
> -	  assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
> -	  to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
> -	  sane.
> +    depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> +    help
> +      Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
> +      assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
> +      to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
> +      sane.
> +	  

Why did you loose the indentation here and add trailing whitespace?

> +config DEBUG_FS
> +	bool "Debug Filesystem"
> +	select SIMPLEFS
>  

We already have a DEBUG_FS config option in this file, why another one?
And what happened to the help text?

I think you need to rework your patch series to do smaller things on
each step, which would make it reviewable much easier, and prevent
mistakes like this one.

thanks,

greg k-h