Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] timerfd: Factor out timer-type unspecific timerfd_expire()

[Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>]

On 02/21/2014 08:13 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:52:03AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> From: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
>>>
>>> There is nothing hrtimer-specific inside the timerfd_tmrproc(), except
>>> the function prototype. We're about to add other timer types, so factor
>>> out generic timerfd_expire() helper from timerfd_tmrproc().
>> This changelog is completely useless. How is timerfd_tmrproc, which is
>> not a function but a function pointer, related to the patch?
>>
>> Moving duplicated code to a common function is nice, but ....
>>> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
> ...
>> Warnings are there to be ignored and testing of user space
>> interfaces after a change is overrated, right?
>>
>> Aside of that you just blindly copied the original code w/o fixing up
>> the now unnecessary line breaks.
> Alexey,
>
> While I appreciate the desire to be careful with authorship and stuff,
> please remove my name as an author of this patch -- the current code has
> nothing to do with my original work, and I surely don't want to take any
> responsibility for it. This is a common practice if you modify someone's
> patch to a great extend.
>
> Thomas is bashing the thing, which has my name on it; although _my_ patch
> did not produce any warnings, came with a completely different changelog,
> and served completely different purposes.
Sorry, it was introduced by me, while rebasing.

>
> Instead of rushing with resending yet another series, please actually read
> Thomas' review.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anton
>



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Best regards,
Alexey Perevalov