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Re: [PATCH] Remove no longer applicable assertion.
From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 10:06:41 +0200
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:41:35AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> As mentioned by Carlos earlier.
>>
>> 2012-04-05 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>>
>> * elf/dynamic-link.h (_ELF_DYNAMIC_DO_RELOC): Remove no longer
>> relevant assertion.
>
> I know that as distro maintainer (or stable branch maintainer),
> I would have had appreciated more details in the commit message (not
> necessarily ChangeLog) - perhaps at least the relevant excerpt from
> Carlos' message where he mentioned it?
He said nothing more than what I put there:
I forgot to mention at the time, but the code can actually be
optimized further, and perhaps that's something to do on a rainy day.
If you notice that given the assumptions the assert in that code is no
longer useful.