Re: rfc: trivial patches and slow deaths?

Joe Perches
2013-08-20T22:49:45Z

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:11:18 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew? Do you want to handle patches for defects that
> > are both obvious _and_ trivial?
>
> I look at everything!

Well, I guess I'll have to start cc'ing you on
the trivial in case the eyestrain gets to you.

[]

> I somewhat disagree that even
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2833648/ was trivial. It changes
> the format of kernel logs and might have implications for people who
> are parsing those logs.

I think there are _very_ few instances where dmesg
output should be kept constant for scrapers.

The format of an oops is about the only one I can
think of where it's reasonable to do so.

> one needs to read each and every
> conversion and decide on the risk factor.

Enjoy...