Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] vsprintf: reduce code size by avoiding extra check

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:36:23PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:29:43AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 19:19 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:26:36PM -0200, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH v2 5/7] vsprintf: reduce code size by avoiding extra check
> > > > >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > > > >   15735       0       8   15743    3d7f lib/vsprintf.o-before
> > > > >   15719       0       8   15727    3d6f lib/vsprintf.o-minus-double-check
> > > > Please add a changelog in your patches, I mean something that
> > > > explain your practical change.
> > > 
> > > Read the subject and try not to go overboard.
> > > I think the changelog André provided is perfect.
> > 
> > 
> > It took me some time yesterday to understand how 
> > ip6_compressed_string() does its job, hence it took me some time to 
> > ensure this patch is safe, hence this reaction for something that 
> > didn't seem obvious to me at a first glance.
> > 
> > But you're right actually, the problem was more in my homework than in 
> > the changelog.
> 
> Since you wrote the last iteration of that bit and you didnt find it 


André wrote this patch, not me :)


> trivial i'd strongly suggest the next version of this patch to include a 
> more verbose changelog that explains what is being done. There's no harm 
> in being verbose about reasons for a change - and there's a lot of harm 
> from being too short.
> 
> 	Ingo