Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 12:55:26 EST


On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:51:12 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:39:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Hmm?
> > >
> > > So that find_conflict doesn't end up in the first column, which causes
> > > diff to treat it as a function name for the purposes of the @@ lines.
> >
> > Please can we just fix the tools not mangle the kernel to work around
> > silly bugs ?
>
> The people who control the tools refuse to fix them.

That would be their problem. We should refuse to mash the kernel up
because they aren't doing their job. If need be someone can fork a
private git-patch.
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