linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: mx51_efika: update platform data for new mfd changes

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Message-ID: <20110308053226.7300e65d@debxo>
Date:	Tue, 8 Mar 2011 05:32:26 +0000
From:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...sta.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...onical.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: mx51_efika: update platform data for new mfd
 changes

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:47:00 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:58:56PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> >>>> MFD changes in c738892f cause the mc13xxx_platform_data struct
> 
> >>>     Linus asks to also specify the commit summary in parens.
> 
> >> Also, what?  If there are changes to how patches should be
> >> submitted, please provide a reference
> >> (Documentation/SubmittingPatches should be updated, as well).
> 
> >    I have no time to rummage in the mail archives, sorry.
> 
> There's been multiple discussions of this.  The issue is that commit
> IDs only mean something in specific trees and go bad if someone
> rebases, and they aren't legibile by humans (so even if the commit is
> in something like Linus' tree the reader still needs a git repository
> to figure out what changes are being talked about).

Ah, thanks, that makes sense.  Sergei's original statement was unclear
("...instead of just the commit ID" would've helped).


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