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Message-ID: <4A67BBDC.7040207@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:24:44 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Mike Rapoport <mike@...pulab.co.il>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	denis@...pulab.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add reboot fixup for SBC-fitPC2

On 07/22/2009 05:38 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Neither this patch nor Denis's earlier version contained an adequate
> decription.  We aren't told what these "problems" are, so we're unable
> to judge the appropriateness of patch.
> 
> Both patches were wordwrapped.
> 
> Both patches use an atypical layout style for the comments.
> 
> I fixed up some of these things and merged the patch into my tree, for
> sending to Ingo for 2.6.32.
> 
> Please send a description of the problem which the patch fixes and I
> shall add that to my copy of the changelog.
> 

I queued up an equivalent cleaned up version for tip:x86/urgent that I
was planning to push to Linus.  However, as you quite correctly point
out the comments in this file are pretty darn pointless; they add
absolutely no information over what is already in the data structure.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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