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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:41:32 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Arvind Chauhan <Arvind.Chauhan@....com>,
	Linaro Networking <linaro-networking@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 Resend 1/5] tick-common: fix wrong check in tick_check_replacement()

On 16 April 2014 00:12, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> B1;3202;0c

What does this mean ??

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>
>> tick_check_replacement() returns if a replacement of clock_event_device is
>> possible or not. It does this as the first check:
>>
>>       if (tick_check_percpu(curdev, newdev, smp_processor_id()))
>>               return false;
>>
>> This looks wrong as we are returning false when tick_check_percpu() returned
>> true. Probably Thomas forgot '!' here in his commit: 03e13cf5e ?
>
> Come on. You can do better changelogs.

:(

> "This looks wrong" is definitely not a good description of the
> problem.
>
> Either you know WHY it is wrong, then you say so. If not, then you can
> send an RFC.
>
> I fixed the changelog up this time.

Thanks, will take care of such stuff in future.
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