From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932901AbYEFVcb (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 17:32:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933523AbYEFVYU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 17:24:20 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:45676 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933465AbYEFVYR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 17:24:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 23:21:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andrew Morton cc: Daniel Walker , johnstul@us.ibm.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: shift helper In-Reply-To: <20080506141808.900ace98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20080501173123.444094226@mvista.com> <1210091954.17132.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210106014.17132.172.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210107675.17132.181.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080506141808.900ace98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:01:15 -0700 > Daniel Walker wrote: > > > your sloppy wording "pulled from the MIPS tree" > > Let it just be said: the amount of time which is lost due to poor patch > descriptions exceeds the amount of time which was saved in not > bothering to write good patch descriptions. > > That it all. Amen to that.