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Date:	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:32:25 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] fs: d_delete change

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:08:33AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:25:16AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The patch looks fine to me, and I'm also fine with merging it ASAP.
> > But the patch subject and commit message are not very descriptive.
> 
> How is the commit message not descriptive? The first sentence
> summarises exactly what the change does. The last says why it
> is required. In the middle are some details.

foo change is about as useless as a subject could be.

"fs: idempotent d_delete" from your old tree was much better.

As far as the commit message is concerned I think the most important
bit is that we do not call it from prune_one_dentry anymore, which is
the things that might matter to any complex filesystem maintainer
looking at the changelog.

The other things I didn't like was the introductionary blurb, but from
reading the answer to the previous comment is seems like that wsn't
intentional anyway.
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