From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 17:45:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20080506174521.19becefd@core> References: <1210052904.3453.30.camel@ymzhang> <20080506114449.GC32591@elte.hu> <20080506120934.GH19219@parisc-linux.org> <20080506162332.GI19219@parisc-linux.org> <20080506164231.GK19219@parisc-linux.org> <20080506173948.6aed7475@core> <20080506165112.GL19219@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , "J. Bruce Fields" , "Zhang, Yanmin" , LKML , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:53573 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755582AbYEFQzF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 12:55:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080506165112.GL19219@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:51:12 -0600 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:39:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Hmm? > > > > > > So that find_conflict doesn't end up in the first column, which causes > > > diff to treat it as a function name for the purposes of the @@ lines. > > > > Please can we just fix the tools not mangle the kernel to work around > > silly bugs ? > > The people who control the tools refuse to fix them. That would be their problem. We should refuse to mash the kernel up because they aren't doing their job. If need be someone can fork a private git-patch.