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Message-ID: <20090301001829.GA10751@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:18:29 -0500 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:01:38AM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > > As I have previously said, that is not the case in reality. There > > appears to be substantial sentiment among people handling patches that > > not having any text in the body of the e-mail makes it harder to handle > > patches. > > It is indeed a problem > - if the patch title alone insufficiently describes the patch > or > - if a patch reviewer believes that it is OK to ignore patch titles. Worse yet, if we start getting these sorts of entries being returned by "git log": ------------ ext4: Fix spelling error: successfull Fix spelling error: successfull Signed-off-by: "Trivial Patch Submitter" <spelling@...s.org> ------------ Just to shut up checkpatch, I'm going to feel the urge to shake a checkpatch maintainer warmly by the throat. Sometimes, all that is needed is: ------------ ext4: Fix spelling error: successfull Signed-off-by: "Trivial Patch Submitter" <spelling@...s.org> ------------ - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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