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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, dl9pf@gmx.de, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Trivial patch monkey <trivial@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Document hadling of bad memory
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:50:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081128225032.0ddeb1b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811280300.26969.rob@landley.net>

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:00:26 -0600 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 10:15:21 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Document how to deal with bad memory reported with memtest.
> ...
> > +BadRAM
> > +######
> > +BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch
> > +here:  http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
> 
> So the patch isn't worth merging, but documentation about the out-of-tree 
> patch is worth merging?
> 
> I'm not objecting, I'm just confused about to what the merge criteria are...
> 

mm..  If someone finds it useful (and I assume that at least one person
would have found it useful, hence the effort to write the patch) then
why not?

(And yeah, yeah, someone might find a .gif of a parrot useful too.  Go
do some work.)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-29  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26 16:15 Document hadling of bad memory Pavel Machek
2008-11-26 16:25 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-11-27  0:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-11-28  9:00 ` Rob Landley
2008-11-28  9:47   ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-11-28 12:18   ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-29  5:28     ` Rob Landley
2008-11-29  6:50   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-12-01 18:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-12-09 12:31   ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-09 21:40     ` Rob Landley
2008-12-09 23:11       ` Pavel Machek

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