linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/10] PTI Makefile and Kconfig additions.

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:37:45 -0800
From:	J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suhail.ahmed@...el.com, christophe.guerard@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] PTI Makefile and Kconfig additions.

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 12:37 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2011, J Freyensee wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 10:31 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > > The Kconfig description is a nice text, how about copying it to the
> > > changeset so that reviewers know what the driver is about?
> > > 
> > 
> > I thought patch 02/10, 'Kernel documentation', would had been first and
> > met this need?  
> 
> Documentation in source files is not the same as documentation in the
> changelog, you need both. The changeset comments are usually just one
> sentence in your series, and a little more would certainly be helpful.
> 

Okay, I can do that.

Thanks,
Jay

> Also, if you have one changeset with the documentation, that does
> not help anyone who looks at another changeset.
> 
> 	Arnd


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