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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block/genhd.c: fix sparse warning
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:42:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090416054205.GX26366@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0904152146l3db9961bt3b52f224abc8d960@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:46:32AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> 2009/4/16 H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>:
> > Fix sparse warning in block/genhd.c.
> >
> > ?? ?? ?? ??warning: symbol '__mptr' shadows an earlier one
> >
> > Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just a heads up: There seems to be some sort of consensus that this
> type of patch title is not a very good one. (What about "remove
> variable shadowing"?)

Indeed.  Speaking of other kind of unpleasantness, could you please
configure your mail-luser-agent to *NOT* replace tabs with series
of spaces/nbsp?  That crap is very annoying - these strings of
U+00A0 U+00A0 U+00A0 et sodding cetera are gratuitously making life
painful for non-UTF8 terminals.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-16  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16  1:53 [PATCH] block/genhd.c: fix sparse warning H Hartley Sweeten
2009-04-16  4:46 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-04-16  5:42   ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-04-16  7:17     ` Vegard Nossum
2009-04-16 18:03   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2009-04-16 18:33     ` Al Viro

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