linux-kernel - Re: Document hadling of bad memory

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Message-Id: <200811280300.26969.rob@landley.net>
Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:00:26 -0600
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
	dl9pf@....de, rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Trivial patch monkey <trivial@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Document hadling of bad memory

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 10:15:21 Pavel Machek wrote:
> Document how to deal with bad memory reported with memtest.
...
> +BadRAM
> +######
> +BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch
> +here:  http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/

So the patch isn't worth merging, but documentation about the out-of-tree 
patch is worth merging?

I'm not objecting, I'm just confused about to what the merge criteria are...

Rob
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