Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753253AbZDVB6a (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:58:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752211AbZDVB6V (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:58:21 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:56474 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751479AbZDVB6V (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:58:21 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:28:12 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Theodore Tso References: <200904140159.n3E1x1K1014705@hera.kernel.org> <200904201744.22572.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090421133701.5b1cd303@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20090421133701.5b1cd303@bike.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904221128.13534.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1017 Lines: 24 On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:07:01 am Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:44:21 +0930 > Rusty Russell wrote: > > > There are several readers: someone reviewing the patch, someone looking > > for a specific bug, someone backporting, someone dealing with an API change, > > someone bisecting. > > With this in mind, I've tried to make a relatively concise addition to > the development process document. How does the following look? I like it, but will it help? Fresh from an epic battle with printk, grep, debugging race conditions and subtly confusing code, who among us can resist providing a blow-by-blow account? Leave the heroics unsung in a dry summary of the final patch? Of course, you never see *me* use flowery prose! Rusty. -- 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/