From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:11:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904151608470.4042@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415224800.GA22425@elte.hu>
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> So do you consider it wrong to summarize impact?
No.
NOBODY is arguing against talking about what the thing does.
We're arguing against the string "Impact:", which is nonsensical.
> Does this argument extend to other summaries as well, such as the title
> itself?
Umm. The summary line that doesn't have such a made-up nonsensical prefix?
Ingo, you're missing the _point_.
Summaries and good description of patches are GOOD.
The "Impact:" string is just noise.
Talk about how it was a cleanup all you want, and by all means talk about
what the intention of it was. Nobody argues against that. What we argue
against is ugly language.
Describe the changes in real sentences.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-15 23:17 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
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 [this message]
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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