linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] Various trees,shell files missing the shebang line

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Message-ID: <877c00f8x5.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:10:46 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>, rdunlap@...radead.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Various trees,shell files missing the shebang line

Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com> writes:

> This is a human being with flesh and blood.
>
> Shell script files were missing the "shebang" line aka shell interpreter.
>
> Note to Randy,
>
> This is for your spare time Eagle Eye stuff, if you could...please.
>
> Oh, I might have inadvertantly added some harmless blank lines too.
>
> Bhaskar Chowdhury (11):
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   There was a space between bang and shell path,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed
>   Shebang line was missing,fixed

A bunch of patches with the same subject line and changelog isn't going
to help anybody looking at these changes later on.  Please, for each
one, come up with a proper, subsystem-specific subject line and describe
the actual work (which file you changed) in the changelog.

Thanks,

jon