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List:       linux-doc
Subject:    Re: file in parent dir
From:       Randy Dunlap <rdunlap () xenotime ! net>
Date:       2010-01-31 22:13:24
Message-ID: 4B660084.3050501 () xenotime ! net
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On 01/30/10 01:35, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:01:55PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 01/29/10 14:57, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>>> diff -U0 /tmp/BUG-HUNTING /tmp/BUG-HUNTING.new
>>> --- /tmp/BUG-HUNTING	2009-12-03 11:51:21.000000000 +0800
>>> +++ /tmp/BUG-HUNTING.new	2009-12-20 12:45:37.783783055 +0800
>>> @@ -27 +27 @@
>>> -Before you submit a bug report read REPORTING-BUGS.
>>> +Before you submit a bug report read ../REPORTING-BUGS.
>>> --
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> That may be a correct change, but your patch needs a
>> "Signed-off-by:" line and correct file names and directory levels
>> before it can be applied.  Please resend with corrections.
>
> I know it's just wanking, but I don't think this is the right change. All paths
> within the kernel are based on the kernel sources "root" directory. That means
> that REPORTING-BUGS absolute address is
>
> 	wherever_you_keep_kernel_sources/REPORTING-BUGS

Yeah, I don't think that the change is necessary either.
Since the submitter doesn't care enough to push it, I'm certainly not
making the change.


> If we merge the proposed change we should merge hundreds of other changes...
> In the same exact Documentation/BUG_HUNTING:
>
> 	Please do read Documentation/SubmittingPatches though to help your
>
> then should become
>
> 	Please do read ../Documentation/SubmittingPatches though to help your
>
> Apart from the fact that this is clearly the *wrong* change, this can
> potentially create hundreds of useless one-liners in the whole Documentation/
> and other text files.


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~Randy
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