From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967083AbZLIBLi (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:11:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967058AbZLIBLf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:11:35 -0500 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:45502 "EHLO tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967059AbZLIBLf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:11:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4B1EF8AB.6010806@ah.jp.nec.com> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:08:59 +0900 From: Naoya Horiguchi Reply-To: n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Organization: NEC Corporation User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: LKML , linux-mm , hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, ak@linux.intel.com, Wu Fengguang Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm hugetlb x86: add hugepage support to pagemap References: <4B1CB5D6.9080007@ah.jp.nec.com> <20091208143928.f3aa0ad2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20091208143928.f3aa0ad2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I kind of dislike the practice of putting all the changelog in patch > [0/n] and then leaving the patches themselves practically > unchangelogged. Because Sorry, I agree. > > a) Someone (ie: me) needs to go and shuffle all the text around so > that the information gets itself into the git record. We don't add > changelog-only commits to git! > > b) Someone (ie: me) might decide to backport a subset of the patches > into -stable. Now someone (ie: me) needs to carve up the changelogs > so that the pieces which go into -stable still make standalone sense. > > I'm not sure that I did this particularly well in this case. Oh well. > > > Please confirm that > mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-in-walk_page_range.patch is > suitable for a -stable backport without inclusion of > mm-hugetlb-add-hugepage-support-to-pagemap.patch. I think it is. > I think that's OK. Thanks, Naoya Horiguchi