[Buildroot] [PATCH v6 1/2] e2fsprogs: refactor to fix conflicts with busybox and util-linux

[Carlos Santos]

> From: "Arnout Vandecappelle" <arnout at mind.be>
> To: "Carlos Santos" <casantos at datacom.ind.br>
> Cc: buildroot at buildroot.org, "Maxime Hadjinlian" <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>, "Thomas Petazzoni"
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>, "Yann E . MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 7:14:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] e2fsprogs: refactor to fix conflicts with busybox and util-linux

> On 11-04-17 18:59, Carlos Santos wrote:
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>> I made a deep overhauling because the original recipe was so messy that
>> small changes did not work. It is now reasonable to artificially split the
>> change in seven patches now to end up with exactly the same result. It's
>> harder to implement, test and review, considering all possible options I
>> need to deal with:
> 
> I agree that it's a little bit harder to implement, but not to test and review.
> And it's pretty likely that you will not get the same result, because proper
> review will be done, problems will be discovered, and you end up with a
> different result :-)
> 
> If you don't split this up, don't expect the patch to be applied for the next
> year or so. The review burden is simply too high.

I see. That's really sad.

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