From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/40] Fix build on gcc8 and various bugs Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 08:01:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20180510080142.0c49116f@xeon-e3> References: <152591991920.119328.14523975619615362920.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20180510061731.GB12718@jerin> <20180510091147.GA26838@jerin> <20180510115759.GA8776@jerin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerin Jacob , dev@dpdk.org To: Andy Green Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f175.google.com (mail-pf0-f175.google.com [209.85.192.175]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5A17F18 for ; Thu, 10 May 2018 17:01:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pf0-f175.google.com with SMTP id w129-v6so1209852pfd.3 for ; Thu, 10 May 2018 08:01:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Thu, 10 May 2018 20:13:31 +0800 Andy Green wrote: > I appreciate the reply. > > But why bother having a subject line at all if it is going to be > mechanically enforced that nothing in it is allowed to be "useful"? > That really doesn't make sense does it. It was done because there were lots of clueless patches showing up on the driver development list which had useless subject lines.