linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction

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Message-ID: <20060823160458.GA17712@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:04:58 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...nkl.hpl.hp.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eranian@....hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:57:16PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:28:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > oh, and please give the patches useful subjects that descript the
> > patch, e.g. this one should be just:
> >
> >
> >     [PATCH 0/17] perfmon2: introduction
> >
> > (yes, it's convention to number the introduction 0 and the actual patches
> >  1 to n)
> 
> Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:
> 
> 	[PATCH 00/17]
> 	[PATCH 01/17]
> 		...
> 	[PATCH 17/17]

To be honest I utterly hate that convention, and the double-padded
version [PATCH 001/17] some people use is even worse.

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