From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936165AbZDISji (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:39:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754547AbZDISj2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:39:28 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:44558 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752206AbZDISj2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:39:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:39:09 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Howells , akpm@linux-foundation.org, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/ Message-ID: <20090409183909.GF26366@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20090409163255.22778.39921.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20090409163300.22778.92061.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20090409181328.GD26366@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:26:49AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think a lot of SCM's parse diffs internally, so people are still going > to have to live with legacy patches. Frankly, once distributed patch(1) understands those, it becomes a problem of other SCMs. And yes, I realize that they might want to do their internal magic for tracking renames. Tough - even without that they wouldn't be worse off than if they got a full "delete this file, create that file" kind of patch.