linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/rt, powerpc: Prepare for PREEMPT

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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 07:24:07 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>,
        Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@...il.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/rt, powerpc: Prepare for PREEMPT_RT

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:40:08AM +0800, Wang Qing wrote:
> Add PREEMPT_RT output to die().

That says what you did, but not why you are doing this.

Why are you doing this?  That needs to go into the changelog text.

greg k-h