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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: fix documentation for /proc/stat, line "intr"
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 17:15:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535C4C1A.5070101@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423094836.GA10953@moskyto.dyndns.org>

On 04/23/14 02:48, Jan Moskyto Matejka wrote:
> n Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:35:39PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 04/22/14 11:19, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> On 04/22/2014 05:29 PM, Jan Moskyto Matejka wrote:
>>>> The sum at the beginning of line "intr" includes also unnumbered interrupts.
>>>> It implies that the sum at the beginning isn't the sum of the remainder of the
>>>> line, not even an estimation.
>>>>
>>>> Fixed the documentation to mention that.
>>>
>>> I'm not really doubting what you claim, Jan, but it would be really
>>> helpful if you provided some data to support the proposed change
>>> (Kernel source references, or notes about testing you've done, or 
>>> pointers to mailing list threads, authoritative note that you are
>>> the maintainer of some relevant kernel subsystem...). Do you have
>>> something like that? (It's also useful for the change log.)
>>
>> I wouldn't mind more of a changelog, but the additional text is
>> certainly correct.
>>
>> Thanks.  I'll apply the patch, but more changelog comments are welcome.
> 
> Thank you for applying.
> 
> You may add following line to the changelog:
> This behaviour was added to /proc/stat in commit a2eddfa95919a730e0e5ed17e9c303fe5ba249cd.
> 
> MQ
> 

I added that and applied your patch.  Thanks.

-- 
~Randy

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-27  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-22 15:29 [PATCH] proc: fix documentation for /proc/stat, line "intr" Jan Moskyto Matejka
2014-04-22 18:19 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-22 22:35   ` Randy Dunlap
2014-04-23  4:57     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-23  5:14     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-23  9:48     ` Jan Moskyto Matejka
2014-04-23 12:48       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-27  0:15       ` Randy Dunlap [this message]

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