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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, johnstul@us.ibm.com, ralf@linux-mips.org,
	anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: shift helper
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 14:18:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506141808.900ace98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210107675.17132.181.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:01:15 -0700
Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> your sloppy wording "pulled from the MIPS tree"

Let it just be said: the amount of time which is lost due to poor patch
descriptions exceeds the amount of time which was saved in not
bothering to write good patch descriptions.

That it all.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01 17:31 [PATCH] clocksource: shift helper Daniel Walker
2008-05-01 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 19:48   ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-01 21:05     ` Ralf Baechle
2008-05-06  0:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-06 16:39   ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-06 20:25     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-06 20:33       ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-06 20:53         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-06 21:01           ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-06 21:18             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-06 21:21               ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-06 21:19             ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-06 21:30               ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-07 16:23     ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-05-07  3:57 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-08 16:48   ` Daniel Walker

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