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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:13:41 +0200 From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> CC: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, david@...g.hm, Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jesper.juhl@...il.com, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, git@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection On 14-04-08 08:24, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:39:43 +0100 Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> I have a related proposal: let us require all patches to be stamped >> with Discordian *and* Eternal September dates. In triplicate. While >> we are at it, why don't we introduce new mandatory headers like, say >> it, >> >> X-checkpatch: {Yes,No} >> X-checkpatch-why-not: <string> >> X-pointless: <number from 1 to 69, going from "1: does something useful" all >> the way to "68: aligns right ends of lines in comments"> >> X-arbitrary-rules-added-to-CodingStyle: <number> (should be present if >> and only if X-pointless: 69 is present). >> >> Come to think of that, we clearly need a new file in Documentation/*, >> documenting such headers. Why don't we organize a subcommittee^Wnew maillist >> devoted to that? That would provide another entry route for contributors, >> lowering the overall entry barriers even further... >> > > None of the above was particularly useful. Does that mean you're not going to take patches that align the right end of lines in comments? :-( Rene. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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