From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] cpufreq: remove CVS keywords
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 01:58:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080519225807.GE17716@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910805191542m671a2200je2d9251721cbdf90@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:42:21PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 5/19/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
> > from comments.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
>
> Thanks for doing this. I'd love to see all CVS keywords removed from
> the kernel source.
I did only the clear-cut cases in this batch (we even have several
keywords containing 2007 dates, and if someone actually maintains his
code in CVS that's legitimate usage), but I'll reduce them further in
the future.
> I've spent countless hour cleaning up kernel
> patches after various embedded vendors checked their kernel source
> into CVS and then generated patch sets containing their changes plus
> all of the expanded keywords.
Guess what experience motivated me to do these patches...
> Jon Smirl
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Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-19 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-19 22:03 Adrian Bunk
2008-05-19 22:09 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-19 22:42 ` Jon Smirl
2008-05-19 22:58 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2008-05-19 23:06 ` Jon Smirl
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