From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:10:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100821201054.GF4760@const.famille.thibault.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100821200528.GA27421@merkur.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg, le Sat 21 Aug 2010 22:05:28 +0200, a écrit :
> The canonical patch subject line is:
>
> Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
>
> - The body of the explanation, which will be copied to the
> permanent changelog to describe this patch.
>
> That should do it. We cannot tell what should NOT be done.
Yes, but according to what is above, we need to repeat the subject,
else it won't be in the changelog. Actually, this is probably where it
should be said 'do not repeat the subject, it will already be included'.
> If you use git then it is trivial to commit your changes and
> generate patches using "git format-patch ..."
That's just one case. See above for the general case.
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-21 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-21 19:32 Samuel Thibault
2010-08-21 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-21 19:55 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-08-21 20:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-21 20:10 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2010-08-21 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-21 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-24 7:43 ` Nick Piggin
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