From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jan III Sobieski <jan3sobi3ski@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-08-19
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:37:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282250266.6724.270.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikDB2t+ZfcvsSJsw=OMnaR-_3ieG7zcmJjt=mH6@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 17:46 pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-08-19 John W. Linville
2010-08-19 18:16 ` Jan III Sobieski
[not found] ` <1282243187.6724.250.camel@Joe-Laptop>
2010-08-19 20:08 ` Jan III Sobieski
2010-08-19 20:37 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-08-19 23:59 ` David Miller
2010-08-19 23:59 ` David Miller
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