From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
david@lang.hm, Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:13:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4803ACE5.4020502@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080413232441.e216a02c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 14-04-08 08:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:39:43 +0100 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> I have a related proposal: let us require all patches to be stamped
>> with Discordian *and* Eternal September dates. In triplicate. While
>> we are at it, why don't we introduce new mandatory headers like, say
>> it,
>>
>> X-checkpatch: {Yes,No}
>> X-checkpatch-why-not: <string>
>> X-pointless: <number from 1 to 69, going from "1: does something useful" all
>> the way to "68: aligns right ends of lines in comments">
>> X-arbitrary-rules-added-to-CodingStyle: <number> (should be present if
>> and only if X-pointless: 69 is present).
>>
>> Come to think of that, we clearly need a new file in Documentation/*,
>> documenting such headers. Why don't we organize a subcommittee^Wnew maillist
>> devoted to that? That would provide another entry route for contributors,
>> lowering the overall entry barriers even further...
>>
>
> None of the above was particularly useful.
Does that mean you're not going to take patches that align the right end of
lines in comments? :-(
Rene.
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2008-04-13 23:51 ` Reporting bugs and bisection david
2008-04-14 0:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-14 4:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-14 5:39 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 6:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 6:39 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 6:43 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 7:23 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 7:43 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 8:30 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 5:25 ` Bill Fink
2008-04-14 10:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 10:41 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 17:35 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-14 12:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-14 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 17:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 18:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 19:30 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-04-14 15:54 ` James Morris
2008-04-14 22:01 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 4:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-15 13:18 ` Work WAS(Re: " jamal
2008-04-15 9:33 ` David Newall
2008-04-15 9:54 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-15 14:04 ` David Newall
2008-04-15 20:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-16 2:34 ` David Newall
2008-04-16 3:53 ` david
2008-04-16 9:06 ` David Newall
2008-04-16 11:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-16 12:41 ` Stephen Clark
2008-04-16 4:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-16 12:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-16 12:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 13:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 19:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-16 19:43 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 19:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-17 13:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-17 15:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 19:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-04-16 20:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 19:39 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 20:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 20:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 21:05 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 21:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 20:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-16 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-16 21:17 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-04-17 17:04 ` David Newall
2008-04-17 19:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-17 19:35 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-17 19:57 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-17 20:16 ` Al Viro
2008-04-17 20:38 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-17 20:53 ` Al Viro
2008-04-17 21:01 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-14 19:13 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-04-14 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 22:18 ` Rene Herman
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