Re: [PATCH 1/5] sata, highbank: fix ordering of SGPIO signals

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Aug 02 2013 - 15:29:40 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:23:49AM -0500, Mark Langsdorf wrote:
> I didn't think I needed more of an explanation than "this is completely
> wrong per the spec" but I'll revise and resubmit.

Of course you always need to explain the implications as the result of
"being completely wrong per the spec" can range from no actual effect
at all to massive data corruption. In general, it's a good idea for a
patch descrpition to describe why the change is an improvement and how
it changes the behavior. The former provides the rationale for
inclusion and the latter helps various people including the subsystem,
-stable and distro kernel maintainers to assess the risk involved in
taking the change.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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