From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:38:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904151736140.4042@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904151717040.4042@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> wouldn't you agree? Adding a "Impact: cleanup" wouldn't do anything to it,
> except make it not read as good English any more.
>
> I like seeing explanations that read well.
Btw, I suspect that if the "Impact:" line is at the end, along with the
"Signed-off-by:" etc lines, it wouldn't be as disturbing and I wouldn't
react as negatively to it.
At least then it wouldn't break up the narrative, and it would kind of fit
with all the other "tagged" lines.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 0:43 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 [this message]
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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