linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1

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Date:   Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:06:37 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1

On 9/20/19 10:51 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:35 AM Brendan Higgins
> <brendanhiggins@...gle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry about that. I am surprised that none of the other reviewers
>> brought this up.
> 
> I think I'm "special".
> 
> There was some other similar change a few years ago, which I
> absolutely hated because of how it broke autocomplete for me. Very few
> other people seemed to react to it.
> 
> Part of it may be that the kernel is almost the _only_ project I work
> with, so unlike a lot of other developers, I end up having muscle
> memory for kernel-specific issues.
> 
> Auto-completion was also one of the (many) reasons why I hated CVS -
> having that annoying "CVS" directory there just always annoyed me.
> There's a reason why git uses a dot-file.
> 
> So I just have issues that perhaps other people don't react to as
> much. And aggressive tab-completion happens to be a thing for me.
> 

Thanks for explaining. Brendan and I will get this sorted out.

Looks like my previous response didn't make it to the kselftest
and kernel lists.

thanks,
-- Shuah