linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Change the type of cipher

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Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:53:24 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Trevor Highland <thighlan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ecryptfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	mhalcrow@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Change the type of cipher_code from u16 to u8

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:44:42 -0600
Trevor Highland <thighlan@...il.com> wrote:

> Change the type of cipher_code from u16 to u8.

I sure hope that Michael knows what's going on here, because these
changelogs aren't very useful.  They tell us *what* the patch does (which
was pretty obvious anyway) but they don't tell use *why* it was done.

The patches were rather wordwrapped so a resend would be needed anyway
please.    Some improved changelogging at the same time would be nice.
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