linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: run emergency remount on dedicated workqueue

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006011651580.8175@i5.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:57:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: run emergency remount on dedicated workqueue



On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Please, always quote the patch title rather than a bare commit ID.  The
> usual form is
> 
>     fa4b9074cd8428958c2adf9dc0c831f46e27c193 ("buffer: make
>     invalidate_bdev() drain all percpu LRU add caches:)
> 
> The main reason for this is so that people can more reliably and simply
> identify the patch within a different tree.  I think.

Absolutely. Also, I think it's usually more readable to quote just the 
first 12 hex digits of the SHA1 - that's still going to be perfectly 
unique in any practical situation, and makes it way easier to flow the 
text to be readable.

> gaah.  Do we really want to add Yet Another Kernel Thread just for that
> dopey sysrq-U thing?

I do have to agree that it's disgusting. Can't we use an existing thread 
(slow-work?) or something like that?

		Linus
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