Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: rfc: trivial patches and slow deaths? | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:49:45 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:11:18 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > Andrew? Do you want to handle patches for defects that > > are both obvious _and_ trivial? > > I look at everything!
Well, I guess I'll have to start cc'ing you on the trivial in case the eyestrain gets to you.
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> I somewhat disagree that even > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2833648/ was trivial. It changes > the format of kernel logs and might have implications for people who > are parsing those logs.
I think there are _very_ few instances where dmesg output should be kept constant for scrapers.
The format of an oops is about the only one I can think of where it's reasonable to do so.
> one needs to read each and every > conversion and decide on the risk factor.
Enjoy...
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