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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	llvmlinux@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [llvmlinux] percpu | bitmap issue? (Cannot boot on bare metal due to a kernel NULL pointer dereference)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:47:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150914124729.GA29030@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+icZUU4rgvxGwBN4CwFbJ6Gk4ZGxyrqU77vDkfP8gK9su0_Cg@mail.gmail.com>


* Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From my side... How can the correbolation be improved...?
> >
> > The best workflow would be for someone to send patches that are considered 
> > clean enough.
> 
> What do you mean by "patches that are considered clean"?
> 
> "Clean" in the sense of is-not-a-hackery and/or
> patch-does-not-follow-Linux-kernel-development-guidelines [1]?

Both in the end.

> Oh, if we all would follow Peter H. blog-article "On commit messages" [2].
> ( /me dreams of a better world. )

So if _you_ start sending those patches then you need to fix known problems.
You don't have to keep the patches as-is as you found them, you are free to fix 
them, open source and all that.

Just start simple, with a single, obvious looking patch, and we'll see from there 
on?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-14 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-06 17:45 [llvmlinux] percpu | bitmap issue? (Cannot boot on bare metal due to a kernel NULL pointer dereference) Sedat Dilek
2015-09-07  5:58 ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found]   ` <CA+icZUUs3KEydWRgu_Y+YqS4TcCNp2DUw3Y+KfBzX7aPg_kzLw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-09-09  2:29     ` Baoquan He
2015-09-09  2:51       ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-09  3:04         ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-09  3:14           ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-09  3:25         ` Baoquan He
2015-09-09  3:46           ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-09  6:56             ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-09  7:14               ` Baoquan He
2015-09-09  7:41                 ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-09 10:05                   ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-09 12:54                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-12 21:22                       ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-13  2:33                         ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-14  7:12                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-14  7:35                             ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-14  7:57                               ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-14  8:54                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-14  9:35                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-14  9:55                                   ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-14  9:59                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-14 10:22                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-14 12:47                                         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-09-14  7:49                             ` Sedat Dilek
2015-09-14 17:50                               ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-14 18:27                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-14 18:38                                   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-15  6:11                                   ` Ingo Molnar

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