Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755534AbZDPOX1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:23:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752886AbZDPOXS (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:23:18 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:60259 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752695AbZDPOXR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:23:17 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: David Miller Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu, 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:23:26 PDT." <20090415.142326.97287514.davem@davemloft.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <49E62BD5.6090508@zytor.com> <20090415.142326.97287514.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1239887097_4039P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:04:57 -0400 Message-ID: <43197.1239887097@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1434 Lines: 41 --==_Exmh_1239887097_4039P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:23:26 PDT, David Miller said: > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:43:02 -0700 (PDT) > > > And if it _is_ obvious, then the mechanical "Impact:" thing is pointless. > > > > In other words - in neither case does it actually help anything at all. > > It's only distracting noise. > > FWIW I find the Impact: blurbs highly annoying too. Just freakin' > say what the damn patch does in the commit message. > > If a person can't be bothered to skim the commit message text, > this Impact: tag only gives them a false sense of understanding > what the change does. Maybe we can use it to flag security fixes, to appease the people complaining they can't find the security fixes without reading the commit message text. ;) --==_Exmh_1239887097_4039P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJ5yz5cC3lWbTT17ARAv4wAJ0bmj0Y1Er7Vvuf9rbhTnKn1d4QVACg+YDc gJ7Vuj5dbqcNamVjaQ8eF1k= =tW5E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1239887097_4039P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/