Re: [PATCH v15 6/9] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID

[Michael Ellerman]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Kyle,
>  your patch format is really odd.
>
> You seem to have *eight* lines of context rather than the regular 3.
> Is there any reason for that oddity?
>
> It basically means that a one-line hunk ends up being 17 lines of
> unified diff rather than 7.

Presumably he's done:

$ git config diff.context 8   


Which I also did at one point because I thought it might help for
reading diffs, but reverted after realising it also affects the diffs
that are generated by format-patch etc.

cheers