Re: [PATCH] ring_buffer: fix ring_buffer_event_length()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > That is a pretty useless duplication of the subject line, so i dropped it. 
> > When the subject line explains the practical impact already, there's no 
> > need to add the impact line.
> 
> Actually, Frederic and I had a discussion about a duplicate Impact line. 
> Perhaps someone is searching the git log on "Impact:" looking for all 
> fixes. Perhaps just a simple:
> 
> Impact: fix
> 
> would be sufficient?

hm, okay - but it should be somewhat different. The impact line should 
really be a 'description of impact/risk'. That overlaps subject lines some 
of the time - but often not. So we could do something more specific like:

  Impact: change/fix (unused) ring-buffer API to be more useful

(For future commits.)

	Ingo