From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Clear a useless global variable in mce.c
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 11:58:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140517095838.GA23100@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400316324-6280-1-git-send-email-slaoub@gmail.com>
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 04:45:24PM +0800, Chen Yucong wrote:
> This patch is just used to remove a useless global variable mce_entry
> and relative operations in mce.c.
Well, I can see from the diff below what you're saying here but a commit
message should contain information which explains *why* you're doing the
change and not *what* you're doing - that we can see.
IOW, you could instead do some git history research and write in your
commit message why this mce_entry got unused and quote commits which
removed it, why they removed it and why we want to remove the remains of
it now.
In any case, the change itself is correct, I would like to have a commit
message which explains why we're removing it.
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-17 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-17 8:45 [PATCH] x86/mce: Clear a useless global variable in mce.c Chen Yucong
2014-05-17 9:58 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-05-19 0:08 ` Chen Yucong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-17 12:05 Chen Yucong
2014-05-19 17:59 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-19 18:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-19 22:06 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-20 10:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-20 17:46 ` Tony Luck
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20140517095838.GA23100@pd.tnic \
--to=bp@alien8.de \
--cc=linux-edac@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=slaoub@gmail.com \
--cc=tony.luck@intel.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox