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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 6/9] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:09:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shmdjx4u.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxGYA_MnVnmtqfX+AW3hE-KE9Bvev65urRKCA7BgmRiOA@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Kyle,
>  your patch format is really odd.
>
> You seem to have *eight* lines of context rather than the regular 3.
> Is there any reason for that oddity?
>
> It basically means that a one-line hunk ends up being 17 lines of
> unified diff rather than 7.

Presumably he's done:

$ git config diff.context 8   


Which I also did at one point because I thought it might help for
reading diffs, but reverted after realising it also affects the diffs
that are generated by format-patch etc.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-16 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-11 19:46 [PATCH v15 0/9] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:46 ` [PATCH v15 1/9] x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:46 ` [PATCH v15 2/9] x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl to do_arch_prctl_64 Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:46 ` [PATCH v15 3/9] x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:46 ` [PATCH v15 4/9] x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32 Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:46 ` [PATCH v15 5/9] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:46 ` [PATCH v15 6/9] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID Kyle Huey
2017-03-14 20:36   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-20  8:01     ` Kyle Huey
2017-03-14 21:47   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-16 11:09     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-03-16 14:30       ` Kyle Huey
2017-03-16 18:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-17  7:56           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-03-11 19:47 ` [PATCH v15 7/9] x86/arch_prctl: Selftest for ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:47 ` [PATCH v15 8/9] KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting Kyle Huey
2017-03-11 19:47 ` [PATCH v15 9/9] x86/arch_prctl: Rename 'code' argument to 'option' Kyle Huey
2017-03-14 20:07   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-20  8:01     ` Kyle Huey

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