Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Update for 4.21

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Dec 31 2018 - 14:50:47 EST


On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:33 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Forgot to push out?
>
> Yeah, I did. I just pushed it out.

Thanks, I see it.

> > Btw, please don't include the whole diff in the same email when it's
> > ~seven thousand lines and over 200k in size. Yeah, I'm on a fast
> > connection, but that isn't *always* true. Did lkml even take this
> > email?
>
> OK, I'll modify my script not to make that diff.

For small "fixes" pulls, the diffs are nice, and you actually see the
details of the fixes. But for big things, the full diff is usually
only a distraction.

I think the x86 maintainers have a script where it adds the diff if
it's less than a hundred lines or something like that..

Linus