Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 21:58:32 EST


On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:07:01 am Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:44:21 +0930
> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There are several readers: someone reviewing the patch, someone looking
> > for a specific bug, someone backporting, someone dealing with an API change,
> > someone bisecting.
>
> With this in mind, I've tried to make a relatively concise addition to
> the development process document. How does the following look?

I like it, but will it help?

Fresh from an epic battle with printk, grep, debugging race conditions and
subtly confusing code, who among us can resist providing a blow-by-blow
account? Leave the heroics unsung in a dry summary of the final patch?

Of course, you never see *me* use flowery prose!
Rusty.
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