From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754205Ab1GAURK (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:17:10 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:55283 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751541Ab1GAURI (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:17:08 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,460,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="20678014" From: Andi Kleen To: ling.ma@intel.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2 ] [x86] Modify comments and clean up code. References: <1309300570-789-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:15:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1309300570-789-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com> (ling ma's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:36:10 +0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ling.ma@intel.com writes: > From: Ma Ling > > Modern CPU use fast-string instruction to accelerate copy performance, > by combining data into 128bit, so we modify comments and code style. The description has nothing to do with the patch. As far as I can tell the patch just renames one symbol and changes all white space. Not fully sure what the point of it is. But normally white space change patches are not supposed to have any other changes because the other changes embedded in them are impossible to review. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only