linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904162223280.32544@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:25:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary"
 to SubmittingPatches

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> Unfortunately many patch submissions are arriving with painfully poor
> patch descriptions.   As a result of the discussion on LKML:
> 
>       http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/296
> 
> explain how to submit a better patch description, in the (perhaps
> vain) hope that maintainers won't end up having to rewrite the git
> commit logs as often as they do today.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> ---
> 

Read through your diff. Looks good to me - nice additions.

Feel free to add
 Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
or
 Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
if you like...

Don't really know what's most appropriate here, but I like the patch.


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