linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:02:49 +0300
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Jeff King <peff@...f.net>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> It is spelled:
>>
>>   git notes add -m <comment> SHA1
>
> Cool!

Don't use them for anything global.

Use them for local codeflow, but don't expect them to be distributed.
It's a separate "flow", and while it *can* be distributed, it's not
going to be for the kernel, for example. So no, don't start using this
to ack things, because the acks *will* get lost.

             Linus
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