Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/5] sctp: add support for generating stream reconf chunks

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 17:04:24 -0200

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:27:09AM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:53 PM, David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > From: Neil Horman <[email-masked]>
> > 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