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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:45:12 -0700 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk> Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> wrote: > > Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP > > The "Configure" word tends to make user believe they have to say 'yes' > to be able to choose the number of procs/nodes. "Enable" should be > unambiguous enough. What broken patch-generation tools do you use, btw? Nick Piggin has the same problem: the Subject of the patch gets repeated as the first line of the body of the thing, which is very annoying. Either I have to go in and edit the email (which I try to do), or the thing gets repeated in the commit message. Yes, the summary line is interesting, but it's _not_ interesting enough that people want to see it twice. (See commit 99b7db7b8ffd for an example of where it got repeated twice - Al Viro isn't as anal as me about commit messages, and clearly didn't edit the email before applying it). If you want to repeat the summary line, please repeat the "Subject:" part of the line too, so that the tools automatically see that it's just a repeat of the Subject: line. Same goes if you want to add author information: make sure that the author information has that "From: " prepended to it. And if it really is a tool that creates these buggy patch messages with duplicate summary information, please let's just fix that buggy crud. I edited this by hand, but it annoys me when I have to do mindless silly stuff just because people submit broken patch descriptions. Linus -- 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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