Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753245Ab0HSUhv (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:37:51 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1195 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753309Ab0HSUhs (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:37:48 -0400 Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-08-19 From: Joe Perches To: Jan III Sobieski Cc: LKML In-Reply-To: References: <20100819174638.GC2672@tuxdriver.com> <1282243187.6724.250.camel@Joe-Laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:37:46 -0700 Message-ID: <1282250266.6724.270.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 869 Lines: 29 On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 22:08 +0200, Jan III Sobieski wrote: > I really like the new Linus policy - merge window is closed - only bug > fixes are admitted. This patch fixes a defect introduced during the merge window. Some of the logging messages used %pM to emit a MAC address. %pM outputs "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" %pm output "xxxxxxxxxxxx" When the message forms were standardized, strings were lower cased, introducing this defect. > IMHO this policy will result in a significant > increase in stability. There have been previous discussions on stability vs change. I think it's unnecessary to rehash them. cheers, Joe -- 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/