Re: use of opaque subject lines

From: Lad, Prabhakar
Date: Thu Feb 05 2015 - 11:57:45 EST


On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:13:10PM +0100, Andreas Ruprecht wrote:
>
>> On a serious note: I do understand what you're getting at, I don't take
>> that personally (and I will send a v2 addressing the things above), but
>> honestly, this kind of answer might just be a real turn-off for other
>> people trying to get into kernel development...
>>
>> I don't want to start a whole new 'attitude in the kernel community'
>> discussion, but I can't just let this go like that, sorry.
>
> Just during the last 12 hours or so, I've seen the following l-k traffic:
>
> Subject: [PATCH] usb: host/sl811-hcd: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] usb: gadget: function/f_sourcesink: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] tty: vt/vt: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] bfa: bfa_core: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] xen/acpi-processor: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: initio: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: dc395x: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: eata: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: qla1280: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: ips: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] fbdev: via/via_clock: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] usb: gadget: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] usb: gadget: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] usb: gadget: function/uvc_v4l2.c: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] xen-netback: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] thermal: int340x: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] vxge: fix sparse warning
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netback: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] ixgbe: fix sparse warnings
> Subject: [PATCH] samsung-laptop: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: thinkpad_acpi.c: fix sparse warning
> Subject: [PATCH] Sony-laptop: fix sparse warning
>
all right I have stopped the script to send any more patches fixing
sparse warnings !

Cheers,
--Prabhakar Lad
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