Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 66/66]arch/um/sys-x86_64/shared/sysdep/skas_ptrace.h: Checkpatch cleanup

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Feb 28 2010 - 22:58:23 EST


On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 08:45:06PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:06:21PM +0100, Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> > 2010/2/27 Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Jeff,
> > and thanks for your reply.
> >
> > > Don't you have anything better to do with your time?
> >
> > It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it...
> > Enlighted by Greg's talk at FOSDEM?? I sent him some patches (nothing
> > more than boring things for a real programmer, but a good solitaire
> > alternative for a rookie like me).
> >
> > These patches are just a try to see if there are other subtree
> > maintainers interested in stuff like this.
>
> Note to gregkh: the next time you give a talk like that, consider including
> "spamming l-k with sixty-odd solitaire sessions^W^Wwhitespace-removal patches
> can lead to considerable annoyance"...

Heh, I did explicitly state that this should be done on the staging
tree only. This developer took it apon themselves to try a different
subsystem, which is fine, why would we want to turn away free help :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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