From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:43:02 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904151241490.4132@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E62BD5.6090508@zytor.com>
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> "cleanup" is indeed the most common, as it is intended to signify a
> trivial but nonzero code change. Whether or not it's *correct* is
> another matter. "build fix" is valid and proper use: it tells that it
> fixes a compilation error, which succinctly communicates both the
> priority of the fix and how it needs to be validated.
Why would that be "proper use"?
Dammit, if the "build fix" is not obvious from the rest of the commit
message, there's something wrong.
And if it _is_ obvious, then the mechanical "Impact:" thing is pointless.
In other words - in neither case does it actually help anything at all.
It's only distracting noise.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-15 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200904140159.n3E1x1K1014705@hera.kernel.org>
2009-04-14 2:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 5:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 10:44 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-15 15:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 16:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 16:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-04-15 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 21:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 21:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 22:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 23:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 4:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-16 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 15:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-15 23:49 ` David Miller
2009-04-16 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-15 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 23:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 21:23 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 22:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 1:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 3:55 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 15:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-16 13:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-16 2:00 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16 2:22 ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-04-16 2:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 3:10 ` Ray Lee
2009-04-16 7:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 11:57 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16 13:55 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-04-20 8:14 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-20 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-22 4:18 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-21 19:37 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-04-22 1:58 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16 1:27 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16 2:31 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16 8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 15:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 15:22 ` Ali Gholami Rudi
2009-04-15 16:41 ` Ingo Molnar
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2009-04-16 5:46 ` Niel Lambrechts
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