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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: petkovbb@googlemail.com, jrigby@freescale.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix collateral damage to top level Makefile
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:27:31 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717072731.GB12273@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717070549.30755.13083.stgit@trillian.secretlab.ca>

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:06:55AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> 
> The patch named "powerpc/mpc5121: Add clock driver", also contained
> an unrelated and bogus change to the top-level makefile.  This patch
> backs out the bad bit.
> 
> SHA1 of offending patch: 137e95906e294913fab02162e8a1948ade49acb5)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> ---
> 
> If the maintainer who picked up this patch (Grant Likely) had done
> his job, this cack-up never would have happened.  Why do we still
> have to deal with such sloppy individuals?
> 
I think the more important question is why the hell would anyone put that
in a Makefile, ever? ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-17  7:06 [PATCH] Fix collateral damage to top level Makefile Grant Likely
2008-07-17  7:27 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2008-07-17  8:50   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17  9:49     ` Boris Petkov
2008-07-17 15:11       ` Grant Likely
2008-07-17 16:01 ` John Rigby

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