From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: hartleys@visionengravers.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: fix sparse warning
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:51:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090423135146.89026a2b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090423203557.GY8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:35:57 +0100
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:23:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:55:06 -0400
> > "H Hartley Sweeten" <hartleys@visionengravers.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Fix sparse warning in mm/vmalloc.c.
> > >
> > > warning: symbol 'tmp' shadows an earlier one
>
> Folks, could we please add to appropriate documentation (SubmittingPatches,
> perhaps) a bit about using descriptive subjects?
If everyone did that, my typing skillz would deteriorate.
> In general, "$TOOL warning in $FILE" says nothing useful. In this case
> "Get rid of shadowed variable in mm/vmalloc.c:<function>" would be far
> more useful, with "found by sparse" _maybe_ showing up in the commit
> message more or less as a footnote. Or even "shadowed variable in
> mm/vmalloc.c:<function>".
yup.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 0:55 H Hartley Sweeten
2009-04-23 20:23 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-23 20:35 ` Al Viro
2009-04-23 20:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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