linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP

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Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:43:39 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Replace Configure with Enable in description
 of MAXSMP

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:45:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> wrote:
> >
> > Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP
> >
> > The "Configure" word tends to make user believe they have to say 'yes'
> > to be able to choose the number of procs/nodes.  "Enable" should be
> > unambiguous enough.
> 
> What broken patch-generation tools do you use, btw? Nick Piggin has
> the same problem: the Subject of the patch gets repeated as the first
> line of the body of the thing, which is very annoying. Either I have
> to go in and edit the email (which I try to do), or the thing gets
> repeated in the commit message.

I'm sorry about that :( I did try applying it here locally which seemed
to work, but something obviously went wrong between then and sending it.


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