netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: add more sanity checks to qdisc_pkt_len

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Message-ID: <ZvRfVKoPsPnPMpoW@LQ3V64L9R2>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:07:00 -0700
From: Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@...anix.com>,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: add more sanity checks to
 qdisc_pkt_len_init()

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 08:55:16PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com> wrote:
> >
> 
> >
> > > git log --oneline --grep "sanity check" | wc -l
> > > 3397
> >
> > I don't know what this means. We've done it in the past and so
> > should continue to do it in the future? OK.
> 
> This means that if they are in the changelogs, they can not be removed.
> This is immutable stuff.
> Should we zap git history because of some 'bad words' that most
> authors/committers/reviewers were not even aware of?

I never suggested that. I suggested not adding more to the
changelog and also mentioned you could feel free to ignore my
comment.