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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix collateral damage to top level Makefile
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 16:27 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:06:55AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> > From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>> >
>> > The patch named "powerpc/mpc5121: Add clock driver", also contained
>> > an unrelated and bogus change to the top-level makefile. This patch
>> > backs out the bad bit.
>> >
>> > SHA1 of offending patch: 137e95906e294913fab02162e8a1948ade49acb5)
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > If the maintainer who picked up this patch (Grant Likely) had done
>> > his job, this cack-up never would have happened. Why do we still
>> > have to deal with such sloppy individuals?
>> >
>> I think the more important question is why the hell would anyone put that
>> in a Makefile, ever? ;-)
>
> Well, it's partially my fault for not spotting it when pulling in
> Grant's git and pushing out to Linus.
>
> Anyway, it's a mistake, shit happens, I doubt Grant will do that one
> twice :-)

Oh come on, don't scare the guy more than he is - now he'll be staring
frantically at each +-diff line before submitting :). And it's not like it's the
end of the world, it's just that Fred has turned 42 or similar :)

P.S. If I only knew how such an innocent thing would destroy a man's
life i never would've
reported it in the first place :). Sorry Grant.

--
Regards/Gruß,
Boris
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