Re: Document hadling of bad memory

Andrew Morton
2008-11-29T06:51:20Z

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.)