From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:18:46 +0000 Subject: Re: char-TPM: Adjustments for ten function implementations Message-Id: <1508318326.6806.1.camel@perches.com> List-Id: References: <1d3516a2-a8e6-9e95-d438-f115fac84c7f@users.sourceforge.net> <20171016183139.otyh3m5c5yurtmow@linux.intel.com> <20171016183512.3bz6x4b6lbhpbkje@linux.intel.com> <20171017085124.pkrjzghcf5wmcydc@mwanda> <1508255833.3129.33.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1508280210.6530.32.camel@perches.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: SF Markus Elfring , linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: James Bottomley , Dan Carpenter , Jarkko Sakkinen , Andy Shevchenko , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Corentin Labbe , Jason Gunthorpe , Jerry Snitselaar , Kenneth Goldman , Michael Ellerman , Nayna Jain , Paul Mackerras , Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=FCwe?= , Stefan Berger , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 11:00 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > The printk removals do change the objects. > > > > The value of that type of change is only for resource limited systems. > > I imagine that such small code adjustments are also useful for other systems. Your imagination and mine differ. Where do you _think_ it matters? For instance, nothing about sizeof(type) vs sizeof(*ptr) makes it easier for a human to read the code. This class of change now require a syntactic parser to find instances of the use of type where previously a grep or equivalent tool worked well. > > Markus' changelogs leave much to be desired. > > Would you like to help more to improve the provided information > for the shown change patterns? I've done that for you far too many times already. Your changelogs need to detail _why_ something is being done, not describe any tool used to perform or find a particular instance of any change. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtprelay0205.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.205]:59344 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934284AbdJRJSx (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2017 05:18:53 -0400 Message-ID: <1508318326.6806.1.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: char-TPM: Adjustments for ten function implementations From: Joe Perches To: SF Markus Elfring , linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: James Bottomley , Dan Carpenter , Jarkko Sakkinen , Andy Shevchenko , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Corentin Labbe , Jason Gunthorpe , Jerry Snitselaar , Kenneth Goldman , Michael Ellerman , Nayna Jain , Paul Mackerras , Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=FCwe?= , Stefan Berger , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:18:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <1d3516a2-a8e6-9e95-d438-f115fac84c7f@users.sourceforge.net> <20171016183139.otyh3m5c5yurtmow@linux.intel.com> <20171016183512.3bz6x4b6lbhpbkje@linux.intel.com> <20171017085124.pkrjzghcf5wmcydc@mwanda> <1508255833.3129.33.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1508280210.6530.32.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-integrity-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 11:00 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > The printk removals do change the objects. > > > > The value of that type of change is only for resource limited systems. > > I imagine that such small code adjustments are also useful for other systems. Your imagination and mine differ. Where do you _think_ it matters? For instance, nothing about sizeof(type) vs sizeof(*ptr) makes it easier for a human to read the code. This class of change now require a syntactic parser to find instances of the use of type where previously a grep or equivalent tool worked well. > > Markus' changelogs leave much to be desired. > > Would you like to help more to improve the provided information > for the shown change patterns? I've done that for you far too many times already. Your changelogs need to detail _why_ something is being done, not describe any tool used to perform or find a particular instance of any change.