On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 09:22:04PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > I noticed maintainers merged patches with this Message-ID, could you > tell how to get this Message-ID?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message-ID > This is not a thing that one is top down, the other is bottom up. For > us, they might be so different on details of code, for customers, they > just think them as a same thing. They may say I just get a new machine, > and still do kexec loading, why these top-down, bottom-up things come > up. So if I read the above correctly, it doesn't matter whether top-down or bottom-up. > And this is not causing code churn. You can see that by replacing > pointer operation with list_head, code in kernel/resource.c related to > child list iteration is much easier to read, Now *this* is starting to sound like some reason "why". If it is better readability, then say so in the commit message. It still doesn't justify adding walk_system_ram_res_rev() though. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --

