Re: [GIT PULL] Performance events updates for v7.3

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 at 02:30, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  - Patch series to fix a category of bugs [..]
> ...
> >  - Series to fix various uncore [..]
>
> In today's small pet peeve, you seem to have caught the same pointless
> verbiage bug that I've been editing out of other peoples'
> explanations: I really don't think it adds any value to talk about how
> one issue was fixed by X patches, and another was fixed by a single
> patch.
>
> Just say "Fix a category of bugs ..." and "Fix various uncore ..". The
> important thing is what got fixed, not that it was a "Five-patch
> series fixing XYZ" like some people seem to think.
>
> No, this isn't a big deal. I edit other peoples messages a lot more.
> Some people seem to not understand imperative mood, and keep doing
> that "Series fixing XYZ" thing.
>
> The only reason I mention it is that I don't think I _used_ to do it
> for your messages.

Yeah, so this was indeed a recent change of mine, I got the brilliant
idea to improve the pull request verbiage from the somewhat ambiguous
and perhaps a bit dismissive 'various' wording of larger changes to the
'series' phrasing, which intended to give the (significantly) higher
underlying effort a bit more credit while keeping the description
more compressed (and I tried to only apply it where it was justified,
so a simple cleanup series does not necessarily earn the same weight),
but looks like it's a regression and annoyance, so I reverted the
brain patch ;-)

I'll simply bring back more verbose summaries in those cases, or
use the 'various' verbiage.

Thanks,

	Ingo