linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpuset: use seq_cpumask(), seq

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Message-Id: <20080804164101.51190a8b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:41:01 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, akpm@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpuset: use seq_cpumask(), seq_nodemask()

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:28:38 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:05:42AM -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > Alexey wrote:
> > > Folks might want to boot with NR_CPUS=4096 and see what happens,
> > > m->count games don't look promising. :-)
> > 
> > That comment is rather heavily dependent on the context of both:
> >  1) the previous patch comment, and
> >  2) booting and seeing.
> > 
> > Could you rewrite it, so that it doesn't depend on such context,
> > and can be read and understood, by itself?

I agree with Paul.  That changelog was useless, sorry.

> That's just a reminder to cpuset people whether /proc/*/status broken or
> not. Can be safely deleted. :-)

Deleting the changelog won't make it clearer (unlike some changelogs
which I've seen ;))

Please send a usable changleog for this patch, thanks.
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