On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:04:04AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 08:41 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > > > It seems that I got no responses so far for clarification requests > > > > according to the documentation in a direction I hoped for. > > > > > > That's because you are pretty unresponsive to direction. > > > > From which places did you get this impression? > > How many times have I told you to include the reason for > your patches in > your proposed commit message? Too often. > > For instance, specific to this patch: > > Many people do not know that a generic kmalloc does a > dump_stack() on OOM. That information should be part > of the commit message. > > Also removing the printk code reduces overall code size. > The actual size reduction should be described in the > commit message too. Could we, please, return one step back and reevaluate need for kmalloc. That would eliminate original "problem" as well. ladis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
