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Date:	Sun, 8 Feb 2009 00:25:43 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	chuck.lever@...cle.com, trond@...app.com,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c: some common code found

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:56:03PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> I personally think that people were honestly just mislead to think that
> diff-funcs output is part of the patch

Yes, exactly, in my case, that's all it was--the "diff" I thought I saw
in my 2-second skim looked odd, and I figured a comment might have
gotten dropped off in the process of replying and adding cc's--hence the
original question.

Anyway, the patch looks obviously fine to me, and the diff-func and
codiff output are helpful.  (Where's diff-func from?)

In similar cases in the future, if you want to cater to the more tired
and/or mentally challenged among us (which may just be me), some clue
that visually distinguishes the quoted diff output in the comment might
help; e.g., maybe indent it like the below.

(But that's intended as a suggestion, not a requirement.)

--b.

Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c: some common code found

diff-func output suggests these functions are very similar:

	$ diff-funcs xs_udp_write_space net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
	 ...(etc)

and codiff shows the space savings:

	$ codiff net/sunrpc/xprtsock.o net/sunrpc/xprtsock.o.new
	...(etc)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
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