linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 for 2.6.32] SFI - Simple Firmware Interface support

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:18:48 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, sfi-devel@...plefirmware.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 for 2.6.32] SFI - Simple Firmware Interface support


* Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org> wrote:

> Feng Tang (10):
>       SFI, x86: add CONFIG_SFI
>       SFI: document boot param "sfi=off"
>       SFI: create include/linux/sfi.h
>       SFI: add core support
>       ACPI, x86: remove ACPI dependency on some IO-APIC routines
>       SFI: add x86 support
>       SFI, x86: hook e820() for memory map initialization
>       SFI: Enable SFI to parse ACPI tables
>       SFI, PCI: Hook MMCONFIG
>       SFI: add boot-time initialization hooks

Now that commit quality is all the rage, let me point out a 
(trivial) detail that could be improved: patch title capitalization. 

In particular for commits touching arch/x86/ we try to standardize 
on capitalizing the word after the 'x86: ' tag. But in the above 
titles the capitalization is mixed-case:

 [aligned vertically for easier readability ]

>       SFI, x86:  add CONFIG_SFI
>       SFI:       document boot param "sfi=off"
>       SFI:       create include/linux/sfi.h
>       SFI:       add core support
>       ACPI, x86: remove ACPI dependency on some IO-APIC routines
>       SFI:       add x86 support
>       SFI, x86:  hook e820() for memory map initialization
>       SFI:       Enable SFI to parse ACPI tables
>       SFI, PCI:  Hook MMCONFIG
>       SFI:       add boot-time initialization hooks

So it would be more consistent to have:

>       SFI, x86:  Add CONFIG_SFI
>       SFI:       Document boot param "sfi=off"
>       SFI:       Create include/linux/sfi.h
>       SFI:       Add core support
>       ACPI, x86: Remove ACPI dependency on some IO-APIC routines
>       SFI:       Add x86 support
>       SFI, x86:  Hook e820() for memory map initialization
>       SFI:       Enable SFI to parse ACPI tables
>       SFI, PCI:  Hook MMCONFIG
>       SFI:       Add boot-time initialization hooks

( Capitalizing like that has the added (minor) benefit of making it 
  slightly easier to read these titles - the 'real' natural language 
  sentence portion of the title begins with a capital letter. )

Thanks,

	Ingo
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