Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752893Ab1DEI0s (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 04:26:48 -0400 Received: from smtp207.alice.it ([82.57.200.103]:57454 "EHLO smtp207.alice.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751714Ab1DEI0q (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 04:26:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:25:40 +0200 From: Antonio Ospite To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Randy Dunlap , lkml , akpm , Richard Purdie Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] Documentation: consolidate leds files to leds/ subdir Message-Id: <20110405102540.091ec116.ospite@studenti.unina.it> In-Reply-To: References: <20110404145803.8663081d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20110404150846.54034f1b.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: z*RaLf`X<@C75u6Ig9}{oW$H;1_\2t5)({*|jhM/Vb;]yA5\I~93>J<_`<4)A{':UrE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__5_Apr_2011_10_25_40_+0200_6V2RNsEkJyK_UDEw" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1895 Lines: 61 --Signature=_Tue__5_Apr_2011_10_25_40_+0200_6V2RNsEkJyK_UDEw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:54:04 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > Changes since v1: > > =A0- don't use git renames >=20 > Actually, I think it would make it much easier to validate the patches > if you used git rename patches for things like this. > I agree, and I did that for the first review round. Initially the patch was meant to be handled by Andrew Morton, maybe I misunderstood one of his comments from http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-doc/msg02562.html : "hm, these look like funky git renames. patch(1) doesn't handle those." and though he wanted me to change that. > As a traditional patch, it's impossible to see that "yes, it's a > rename". There might be tons of changes hiding in the add/remove pair. >=20 > Linus >=20 --=20 Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? --Signature=_Tue__5_Apr_2011_10_25_40_+0200_6V2RNsEkJyK_UDEw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2a0gQACgkQ5xr2akVTsAFAgQCgsjMZpopPCOtTn2OyEWVEvrnc xRMAnRQn1WFYI/htZU00w0vjF9fC9X6M =QUxr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__5_Apr_2011_10_25_40_+0200_6V2RNsEkJyK_UDEw-- -- 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/