Re: [PATCH] fix maxcpus=N parsing

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> > Fix 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4: maxcpus=N is now having no
> > ...
> 
> On a totally unrelated issue:
> 
> While looking at the history in gitk and gitweb etc shows these commit 
> ID's as nice hyperlinks, I really think it's nicer for everybody if the 
> commit is also described with its "headline", so that non-git users (or 
> even git users, when just using "git log" or similar) at least can grep or 
> google for it.
> 
> So when writing descriptions, I would prefer it if people wrote them 
> something like
> 
>    Commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4 ('ACPI: boot correctly 
>    with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"') broke maxcpus parsing on x86[-64] ...
> 
> so that it gets both the exact commit naming and the nice hyperlinks where 
> appropriate *and* it ends up being more useful even without the links.

Agreed and noted.

> 
> Yes, it's redundant information, but since we have the useful one-line 
> descriptions, it's generally a good idea. And I really do think that it 
> tends to make the explanations read better too.
> 
> For example, in this example, I think it really made it more clear what 
> kind of change had caused the breakage. Maybe that's not always true, but 
> I suspect it's true most of the time.
> 
> I'll fix it up manually (I often do), but I thought I'd just mention this 
> stylistic issue.

Thanks.

Hugh