linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] cpufreq: remove CVS keywords

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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 19:06:22 -0400
From:	"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
To:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] cpufreq: remove CVS keywords

On 5/19/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:42:21PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>  > On 5/19/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
>  > > This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
>  > >  from comments.
>  > >
>  > >  Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
>  >
>  > Thanks for doing this. I'd love to see all CVS keywords removed from
>  > the kernel source.
>
>
> I did only the clear-cut cases in this batch (we even have several
>  keywords containing 2007 dates, and if someone actually maintains his
>  code in CVS that's legitimate usage), but I'll reduce them further in
>  the future.
>
>
>  > I've spent countless hour cleaning up kernel
>  > patches after various embedded vendors checked their kernel source
>  > into CVS and then generated patch sets containing their changes plus
>  > all of the expanded keywords.
>
>
> Guess what experience motivated me to do these patches...

The $log ones are the most evil. It is hard to automatically remove
the changes from the diffs.

>
>  > Jon Smirl
>
>  cu
>  Adrian
>
>
>  --
>
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>         of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
>        "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
>                                        Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
>
>


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@...il.com
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