On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:33:28PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:05:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> >

> > * J.A. Magallón  wrote:

> >

> > > > heh. Could you send a patch with a changelog please?

> > >

> > > Here it goes...I hope its right.

> >

> > applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks!

>

> Ingo, why did you require a patch? Was not it really more simple and

> easy for everyone to write it yourself? Since I am sure it was not only

> a laziness matter (really?), I am very curious to know the reason.

I see two things :

  - preserve authorship of the code

  - "laziness" as you call it, is the only way to scale for a maintainer.
Willy
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