Re: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for v7.4-1

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>]

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On Wed, 28 Oct 2026, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 23:59, Ilpo Järvinen
> <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Highlights:
> 
> Please, people - give a *summary*.
> 
> Not 150 lines that just re-organizes the shortlog with some editing.
> 
> It's not a "Highlight" if it just repeats every small detail. That's
> just a "list". And it certainly isn't informative.
> 
> I - and others who read merge commits - want to know the big picture.
> Not every driver detail. If I wanted to know the exact details of what
> happened in some particular driver, I would be reading the commits for
> that driver. That's not what the merge is about. The merge is about
> bigger issues than to see things like this:
> 
>     - intel/pmt:
>        - Block mmap when read_telem() callback is present
> 
> and that's just one example of a *lot* of "this is not a big picture
> issue, it's a small detail in one particular driver".
> 
> I suspect one thing that is actually a "bigger picture" issue is that
> 
>  - ACPI: video: Remove CONFIG_X86 dependency as WMI now supports non-X86
>                archs
> 
> which is something that people might find interesting in general.
> 
> On the whole, I think 90% of that list should have been written along
> the lines of
> 
>  "Usual updates for laptop quirks from HP, ASUS, Acer and Dell:
>     - new model names and recent CPU support
>     - more special button / function key handling
>     - battery and hardware monitoring quirks"
> 
> or something.
> 
> Please *help* me write usable merge messages that are actually
> informative and not just a "data dump". For the data dump, we have the
> details in the git history.

Okay, thanks for the feedback. I'll try to leave more out the next time
and/or write it more directly to you specifically.

So far I've mainly written these from the perspective if one has the 
relevant HW or is using a driver, whether the change might be of interest 
to such an user or not (it certainly didn't have everything even if I 
can believe you can easily get that feeling).

I understand in platform drivers case many of those changes would be of 
zero interested to you, and same could be said of anyone else. HP owner 
won't be interested in any Dell changes, nor even those HP changes not 
relevant for one's device, etc.

...But I don't *have to* keep doing it like that. :-)

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 i.