On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was Re: [buildrobot] [PATCH] mips: Really remove ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:08:45AM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> This patch is obvious and it fixes breakage. Please go ahead and commit it. > > Sorry to pick on you here Steven, but this doesn't meet gcc's > definition of an obvious patch. Don't believe me? See > http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html#policies > > Allowed as obvious in the gcc sources are typo fixes for comments or > similar, or reverting a bad patch you made. That's it. The power to > change anything else is reserved to the relevant maintainer.
Huh. That's silly. It allows nothing interesting! > Can I recommend gdb's obvious patch policy? It even tickles my sense > of humour. "will the person who hates my work the most be able to > find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious.. I like this one much better. Anyone else opposed to changing the obvious-commit policy to something along these lines? Diego.
