Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: + fix-mult_frac-multiple-argument-evaluation-bug.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch | Date | Tue, 23 May 2023 12:41:20 +0200 |
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On Tue, May 23 2023 at 11:48, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Changelogs have to be self explanatory and if the shortlog, aka >> $subject, claims "bug" then there has to be a reasonable explanation >> what the actual bug is. >> >> Seriously. >> >> All this is documented, but obviously documention for changelogs and the >> acceptance of patches is just there to be ignored, right? > > I don't want to return to kindergarten and document problem which every > C programmer learns exploring MIN(a, b).
A quick summary what the bug is, is _not_ kindergarten level.
Why does a reviewer have to do his own analysis at the patch level to figure out what this solves and fixes?
It's 20 seconds of courtesy on the submitter side which saves a lot of time on the reviewer and maintainer side.
Thanks,
tglx
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