From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B94C33403F5; Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787480583; cv=none; b=iLmctzpv6gDlE/5/S3q3ctGtIlUDTrf3qxdT0i1uWr2Nqu7WfBEZ8LNzsC0Y+hqdVcNCf51xmFJmPbJZlSROK/JG7zE4js0cw9qst3Axq4Va07Jwt86fDsvyjvXahb2FpLZhbr1krHjDqcuDQF/8IF5qrG/z+uBXZc4wi1KjGv0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787480583; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/1KIzU7jetVq1r/Ds9/JWWR2uNA7gVahDmhqUTe4IvE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=dNhv91r9WHcvyQOeqjf/0H0z4eupwR0S7jCnRXXfxeH9MprOpxsvL6WxUA/Si0tIKCozlo3ydGD2FR9rBNhKgfKzjPLH89bnAcprwzHw2+iv45oUAUxW0UolGldUAOUFkU8OKOs+/saDZz19UgORV/2IbtjjhAQRB16Ry8YR+qM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=m9+8Dsyc; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="m9+8Dsyc" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C70A11F000E9; Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:22:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1787480582; bh=0AHOK0p0yfFOUtXF2nsKFoOfuc46jMFgwsTtkiSNHWE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=m9+8Dsyczhpsa4kW0bgrsd+dZfwym00UyYaSUzpWzrIxN+ItbqQaTSdZ+MrBTCRtU 2Fhsx6oA91CZj0xRxbb80WtIZt59rRs2NXOKRsD7LFpRf51T9XCdNWyI7oPUnXVkeq Ok4TbmQFQa//YMa09g9Rb/D1M3RZW84qxC9QKtSrWcMyD52Gy3rYWUlQwQsh5OxAG3 AaLonaPPSzMVZ1pHaXmsV6UcFwKiFBXrg3FixMwEpDrZeVTweshDbNyjDe5YxMuc39 rPKIyp0LcBPvhDprxuYn8XHFj+mTGfxLaDpcwzJRi0yx/n2LcbyIH8s8AzWxLxoGPs CcUGnJN2hnbuA== Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:22:57 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Alexander Shishkin , Mark Rutland , Namhyung Kim , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Sean Christopherson Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance events updates for v7.3 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: * Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 at 02:30, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > - Patch series to fix a category of bugs [..] > ... > > - Series to fix various uncore [..] > > In today's small pet peeve, you seem to have caught the same pointless > verbiage bug that I've been editing out of other peoples' > explanations: I really don't think it adds any value to talk about how > one issue was fixed by X patches, and another was fixed by a single > patch. > > Just say "Fix a category of bugs ..." and "Fix various uncore ..". The > important thing is what got fixed, not that it was a "Five-patch > series fixing XYZ" like some people seem to think. > > No, this isn't a big deal. I edit other peoples messages a lot more. > Some people seem to not understand imperative mood, and keep doing > that "Series fixing XYZ" thing. > > The only reason I mention it is that I don't think I _used_ to do it > for your messages. Yeah, so this was indeed a recent change of mine, I got the brilliant idea to improve the pull request verbiage from the somewhat ambiguous and perhaps a bit dismissive 'various' wording of larger changes to the 'series' phrasing, which intended to give the (significantly) higher underlying effort a bit more credit while keeping the description more compressed (and I tried to only apply it where it was justified, so a simple cleanup series does not necessarily earn the same weight), but looks like it's a regression and annoyance, so I reverted the brain patch ;-) I'll simply bring back more verbose summaries in those cases, or use the 'various' verbiage. Thanks, Ingo