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From: "Steve Wise" <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: "'Steven Rostedt'" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "'Baole Ni'" <baolex.ni@intel.com>, <swise@chelsio.com>,
	<dledford@redhat.com>, <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
	<hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>, <airlied@linux.ie>,
	<kgene@kernel.org>, <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
	<dougthompson@xmission.com>, <bp@alien8.de>,
	<linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<chuansheng.liu@intel.com>, <hch@infradead.org>,
	<matanb@mellanox.com>, <markb@mellanox.com>,
	<jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>, <dean.luick@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0254/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 10:20:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00c701d1ecd1$5a4caef0$0ee60cd0$@opengridcomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160802150832.GA26697@home.goodmis.org>

> 
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> > Acked-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
> >
> 
> I have to ask, why did you ack all these? There's several things wrong with
> this patch series, but even the point of the patch is mistaken. It makes
> readable code much less readable. When you chmod a file, do you type
> 
>   chmod 0444 file
> 
> or do you write
> 
>   chmod S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IROTH file
> 
> ?
> 
> Which of the above is easier to figure what is being changed?
>

I assumed this was some global "fix up".   
 
> Not to mention, because the subject is the same for all 1285 patches, and you
> deleted the content of the patch in your ack, there's no way to know what
> exactly this ack is for (I haven't received the original patch yet because
> it's probably being ratelimited by some mail server).
> 

I acked just the single patches that hit cxgb3/cxgb4.  But if this is really
garbage, then ignore my ACKs...

Steve.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-02 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02 10:53 [PATCH 0254/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Baole Ni
2016-08-02 14:12 ` Steve Wise
2016-08-02 15:08   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-02 15:20     ` Steve Wise [this message]
2016-08-02 15:44       ` Doug Ledford

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