On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 15 Feb 2015 16:13, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 02/15/2015 11:46 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > On 17 Jan 2015 23:22, Kees Cook wrote: >> >> --- a/man2/syscall.2 >> >> +++ b/man2/syscall.2 >> >> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ >> >> .\" >> >> .\" 2002-03-20 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> .\" - adopted for Linux >> >> +.\" 2015-01-17, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> +.\" Added mips and arm64. >> >> .\" >> > >> > can we scrub changelogs from the man pages in general ? they're usually >> > incomplete and rarely provide more than `git log -p`. >> >> Yes, I tend to discourage them these days, but don't always worry too much if >> someone adds them to patch. > > in this case, i think Kees was following apparent convention rather than > thinking he always add one. so i'm suggesting we help out at least the > people who are just trying to DTRT by scrubbing the tree of existing ones > that aren't useful. Yeah, I tend to try to follow the convention in the file. It's wasn't clear what to do. I'm happy to send a patch to wipe my entries, if that's desired. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
