linux-kernel - Re: iunique() fails to return ino_t (after commit 866b04fccbf125cd)

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Message-Id: <20070916123912.6cf3ceb7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:39:12 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
Cc:	"Jeff Layton" <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iunique() fails to return ino_t (after commit 866b04fccbf125cd)

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:58:54 +0530 "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com> wrote:

> [*] BTW, the changelog/patch description of this commit demonstrates
> why it is a Bad Thing (tm) to have lengthy [PATCH 0/x] kind of mails
> (containing important technical details) preceding a patchset.
> 
> I can only guess as to what happened, but reading the archives of the
> original submission of this patchset on LKML, I think Andrew had to
> append the contents of the [0/3] mail to the git commit of the [1/3]
> patch (so as to not lose all those details and ensure that they got saved
> in the git history), with the result that most of the changelog of commit
> 866b04fccbf1 has nothing to do with that particular patch at all, but
> instead with other commits, that do not even touch that same file (!)
> 
> So guys, please keep "[0/x]" mails short and only as a non-technical
> introduction of the patchset. All relevant discussion must come in the
> other mails that contain the *real* patches.

yup.

Actually, when I do the copying of the [0/n] text into [1/n]'s changelog
I could add text to the changelogs of [2/n] ... [n/n] mentioning that
more details are in the preceding changelog.
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