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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:38:10 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: adobriyan@...il.com Cc: rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dada1@...mosbay.com, mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, acme@...stprotocols.net Subject: Re: Impact: From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:39 +0300 > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:20:19AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > > update rwlock initialization for nat_table > > > > > > Impact: clean up > > > > > > The commit e099a173573ce1ba171092aee7bb3c72ea686e59 > > > (netfilter: netns nat: per-netns NAT table) renamed the > > > nat_table from __nat_table to nat_table without updating the > > > __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(__nat_table.lock). > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com> > > > > Applied to net-2.6, thanks Steven. > > > > As Andrew mentioned this is a bug (albeit a "nano-bug" as you > > called it :-) so I removed the Impact line in the commit > > message when applying this. > > Speaking of Impact: lines, is this a new fashion or what? I don't know what it is, but I find them pointless. Just provide a proper verbose commit message and be done with it. At the rate we're going we'll soon have commit messages like: -------------------- Impact: Crashes kernel Cause: Race between timer and workqueue Implementation: ... -------------------- I mean, spare me... -- 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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