Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle path

Borislav Petkov
2017-09-14T09:19:10Z

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 04:41:39PM +0800, Quan Xu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:46:37AM +0000, Yang Zhang wrote:
> > > > Add poll in do_idle. For UP VM, if there are running task, it will not
> > > > goes into idle path, so we only enable poll in SMP VM.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com>
> > > Broken SoB chain.
> >   Peter,  I can't follow 'Broken SoB chain'.. could you explain more
> > about it?
> >
>     Peter, Ping..

The SOB chain needs to show the path from the author to the upstream
maintainer. Yours has Yang before you, which doesn't say what his role
is.

Read Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst, section 11.

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Boris.

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