From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:50:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090416005025.GA2779@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904151736140.4042@localhost.localdomain>
* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > wouldn't you agree? Adding a "Impact: cleanup" wouldn't do
> > anything to it, except make it not read as good English any
> > more.
> >
> > I like seeing explanations that read well.
>
> Btw, I suspect that if the "Impact:" line is at the end, along
> with the "Signed-off-by:" etc lines, it wouldn't be as disturbing
> and I wouldn't react as negatively to it.
>
> At least then it wouldn't break up the narrative, and it would
> kind of fit with all the other "tagged" lines.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Or perhaps make it fit into the narrative but still have a
recognizable structure to make sure it cannot be forgotten?
Something like:
The impact of this change is that the build is fixed.
The impact of this change is that the code gets cleaner.
The impact of this change is that the CPU does not overheat.
although this sounds extremely artificial, circumvent and childish
to me :-/
I guess i'm infected with the "Impact: " language already and my
brain resists lingual inefficiencies ;-/ We've been using it for
almost a year meanwhile.
Ingo
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200904140159.n3E1x1K1014705@hera.kernel.org>
2009-04-14 2:05 ` Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 5:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 10:44 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-15 15:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 16:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 16:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 21:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 21:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 22:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 23:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:50 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-16 4:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-16 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 15:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-15 23:49 ` David Miller
2009-04-16 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-15 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 23:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 21:23 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 22:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 0:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 1:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 3:55 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 15:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-16 13:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-16 2:00 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16 2:22 ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-04-16 2:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 3:10 ` Ray Lee
2009-04-16 7:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 11:57 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16 13:55 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-04-20 8:14 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-20 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-22 4:18 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-21 19:37 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-04-22 1:58 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16 1:27 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16 2:31 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16 8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 15:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 15:22 ` Ali Gholami Rudi
2009-04-15 16:41 ` Ingo Molnar
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2009-04-16 5:46 ` Niel Lambrechts
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