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Message-ID: <470B220A.6080102@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:39:06 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:11:53AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> The SCM changelog should contain _what_ a patch does and if
>> necessary _why_ it does so.
> The _why_ part is more important than _what_. The diff should hopefully
> explain the _what_ part.

"What": fix lockup in this and that circumstances
"Why": because lockups are annoying
"How": the diff
(That's what I meant with what and why.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
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