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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/6] signals: send_signal: factor out SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT checks
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:08:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080312220824.GA120@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080312215406.A786526F992@magilla.localdomain>

On 03/12, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Of course, since I personally don't agree, I'd like to discuss it more
> > if possible.
> 
> The point is that, whenever possible, a semantics change should be
> isolated into a patch separate from any related cleanups.  More
> important than that, no semantics change should go unmentioned so
> it's only documented as a result of someone's careful review of
> the change.

Yes. You are very right.

And. I must admit. I didn't even realize that the added semantics change
worth at least a special note in changelog because it is easily visible.
This was really wrong in any case. Thanks for pointing out this.

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-09 18:59 Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-11  2:16 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-11 17:51   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-11 20:32     ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-12  5:49       ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-12 21:54         ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-12 22:08           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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