From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933882AbYEFVbF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 17:31:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932557AbYEFVUR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 17:20:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:43561 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933295AbYEFVUM (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 17:20:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 14:18:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Daniel Walker 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 Message-Id: <20080506141808.900ace98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1210107675.17132.181.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080501173123.444094226@mvista.com> <1210091954.17132.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210106014.17132.172.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210107675.17132.181.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:01:15 -0700 Daniel Walker 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.