Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/7] trace: make filter_parse_regex() provide the length of substring to compare with

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:44:24 +0000
Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> The point is that by now this strlen() is the only thing for which we
> NUL-termination of the substring; moving it inside the filter_parse_regex()
> is an obviously equivalent transformation and it leaves that one strlen() call
> inside filter_parse_regex() the only place where we still care about NUL.
> 
> The next commit kills it off completely, at which point we are done with
> modifying the string at all.

Thanks for the explanation,

Can you add that to the change log. I like to think patches can stand
on their own, and if they are added to help another patch, it should be
stated in the change log so someone doing a git blame followed by a git
show, knows what is going on.

Changes done for a patch series may be fine when that series is being
reviewed, but a change log is the only thing we have in the future to
understand why something was done. And a change done to help out
another change is lost when going back and looking at the history.

I've been burnt by my own code by looking back at why I did something
and not having a change log on a change describing things to why they
were done (because at the time it seemed obvious). But then I wasted a
lot of time digging through archives to figure out the history of some
change. I rather avoid doing that again.

Thanks,

-- Steve
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