netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/core: Replace offensive comment in skbuff.c

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Message-ID: <7b8de23e-67c3-46ee-ad02-b80e74f8bea4@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:23:57 +0200
From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC: mysteryli <m13940358460@....com>, "David S . Miller"
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	“mystery” <929916200@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: Replace offensive comment in skbuff.c

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:36:40 +0200

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 04:42:53PM +0800, mysteryli wrote:
>> From: “mystery” <929916200@...com>
>>
>> The original comment contained profanity to express the frustration of
>> dealing with a complex and resource-constrained code path. While the
>> sentiment is understandable, the language is unprofessional and
>> unnecessary.
>> Replace it with a more neutral and descriptive comment that maintains
>> the original technical context and conveys the difficulty of the
>> situation without the use of offensive language.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: “mystery” <929916200@...com>
> 
> Sorry, but this signed-off is not valid:
> 
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html
> 
> says:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@...eloper.example.org>
> 
> using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)
> 
> Please resubmit using a real identity. Please also take a read of:
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html

Should we consider applying such patches at all? There are tons of such
comments, mostly in old code, while I highly doubt it may "offense" anyone.

> 
> 
>     Andrew

Thanks,
Olek