linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] staging: comedi: Improved readability of function comedi_nsamples

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Message-ID: <20180613190549.ugl43yee4f3thk4t@mwanda>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:05:49 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Chris Opperman <eklikeroomys@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Frank Mori Hess <fmh6jj@...il.com>,
        Simo Koskinen <koskisoft@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: comedi: Improved readability of function
 comedi_nsamples_left.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:26:43PM +0200, Chris Opperman wrote:
> Hi Dan/Ian,
> 
> Noted your comments regarding additional text, thanks! Just curious whether 
> the "scissors" format given at the link below is valid? 
> 
> https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchTipsAndTricks
> 
> It is given as an alternative to placing additional text below the
> cut-off line.
> 

Try it yourself.  Save your email as email.txt and then
`cat email.txt | git am` and then review the patch with git log -p.

I've seen people do the scissors thing, but I assume the maintainer has
to hand edit the log which we refuse to do.

regards,
dan carpenter