linux-kernel - Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c

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Message-Id: <200904221128.13534.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:28:12 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:07:01 am Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:44:21 +0930
> Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > There are several readers: someone reviewing the patch, someone looking
> > for a specific bug, someone backporting, someone dealing with an API change,
> > someone bisecting. 
> 
> With this in mind, I've tried to make a relatively concise addition to
> the development process document.  How does the following look?

I like it, but will it help?

Fresh from an epic battle with printk, grep, debugging race conditions and
subtly confusing code, who among us can resist providing a blow-by-blow
account?  Leave the heroics unsung in a dry summary of the final patch?

Of course, you never see *me* use flowery prose!
Rusty.
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