From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] perf: add ability to record event period Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:17:28 +0100 Message-ID: <1324376248.24621.26.camel@twins> References: <1323266161-394927-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org> <1323266161-394927-4-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org> <4EEAEF83.3080100@gmail.com> <20111219205829.GB28058@infradead.org> <4EF0424D.3070102@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:55463 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752521Ab1LTKRm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:17:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4EF0424D.3070102@gmail.com> Sender: linux-perf-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: avagin@gmail.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Andrew Vagin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, mingo@elte.hu, asharma@fb.com, devel@openvz.org, dsahern@gmail.com, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 12:07 +0400, Andrew Vagin wrote: > Look at the comment below. In it I try describe why we need this > functionality. Its not about comments, a patch has to have a Changelog that covers the why and what. If it doesn't the patch won't go anywhere. Also, its not the maintainers job to reconstruct such a changelog from an email discussion. So write up a proper changelog and resubmit the patch.