Re: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.15-1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And merge messages should be legible, not "this is all the details that you could have just used 'git shortlog' to get". just used 'git shortlog' to get". When you...
View ArticleRe: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and not "GNU Library General Public" That's just FSF revisionism. That's just FSF revisionism. It used to be...
View ArticleRe: [PULL REQUEST] nfsd changes for 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) This had a tracepoint conflict with the nfs client pull. This had a tracepoint conflict with the nfs client pull. The resolution seems obvious and I did it, but I'd...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.15-1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Then it merits that "default y" exactly because "make oldconfig" should just work. oldconfig" should just work. (b) corollary of the above: if you add a new gatekeeping...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL 1/2] Kbuild updates for v4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Both in the sense of "this kernel config option depends on the compiler supporting flag XYZ" but also in the sense of "the use flag ABC depends on not only compiler...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] NTB bug fixes for v4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Please consider pulling them. They may have been in your ntb-next branch for some time, but they...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org> It would be particularly good to test suspending when a lot of timers are active, particularly...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] NTB bug fixes for v4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote: [...] isolated driver which shouldn't have any effect on any other systems. Gaah. I...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.15-1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'll take it either way. take it either way. There are valid reasons to put it in the signed tag - that way you write it as you do the tag, and then "git pull-request"...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) [ this is just a resend of yesterday's mobile html version that got rejected by the lists, sorry for the duplication ] rejected by the lists, sorry for the duplication...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) You don't even have to kill the machine and make it hard to report to make a user unhappy, just "the new kernel didn't work for me" will make that user skittish about...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Use bools for the state flags
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Usually a byte, but I don't think there is any guarantee of it at all. there is any guarantee of it at all. Use "bool" mainly as a return type from functions that...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] RTC for 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) This is _really_ annoying. This is _really_ annoying. I'm checking that pull requests have been in linux-next, and that rewording of the commit message just means that...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/5] Consolidate init_task handling
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 5:31 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: [...] Here's a series of patches that consolidate init_task handling: Looks sane on...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] afs: Fixes
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] complete. So I see in the commit message why afs needs to do this, but it's worth pointing out that it's worth pointing out that it's (a) impossible to...
View ArticleRe: [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to descr ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Stop hiding behind Linus.No, Linus happily stands up for //. I really don't like one-liner /* */...
View ArticleRe: [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to descr ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] */ And this is *exactly* what I don't want o see, because now the SPDX placement is basically entirely random, and we'll get stupid conflicts that are must...
View ArticleRe: [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to descr ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But let's just say that if the "//" for the SPDX line ends up encouraging people towards this kind of format over the long run, I think that would be lovely. The /* */...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] afs: Fixes
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) At least fork(), for example, only clears the dirty bit, doesn't mark it write-protected. doesn't mark it write-protected. So there is some rate-limiting of dirty...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/5] add printk specifier %px, unique identifier
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So: cat /proc/self/stack cat /proc/self/stack now prints out now prints out [<0>] proc_pid_stack+0xaa/0x100 [<0>] proc_single_show+0x48/0x80 [<0>]...
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