Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:50:32 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       mtk.manpages@gmail.com, dl9pf@gmx.de, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
       linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Trivial patch monkey <trivial@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Document hadling of bad memory
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:00:26 -0600 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 10:15:21 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Document how to deal with bad memory reported with memtest.
> ...
> > +BadRAM
> > +######
> > +BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch
> > +here:  http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
> 
> So the patch isn't worth merging, but documentation about the out-of-tree 
> patch is worth merging?
> 
> I'm not objecting, I'm just confused about to what the merge criteria are...
> 

mm..  If someone finds it useful (and I assume that at least one person
would have found it useful, hence the effort to write the patch) then
why not?

(And yeah, yeah, someone might find a .gif of a parrot useful too.  Go
do some work.)

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