On 16 Feb 2015 11:30, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Mike Frysinger 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. i don't think we need to make you do that one off :). if Michael is happy with scrubbing the code base, lets go that route. -mike
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