netdev - Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH] SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver

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Message-Id: <1211211904.24946.30.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 16:45:04 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...c.com>,
	Michael.Hennerich@...log.com, Bill Gatliff <bgat@...lgatliff.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ian.saturley@...c.com,
	Bahadir Balban <Bahadir.Balban@....com>,
	Dustin Mcintire <dustin@...soria.com>,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH] SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor
	driver

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 11:27 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Steve Glendinning
> <steve.glendinning@...c.com> wrote:
> > +++ b/drivers/net/smsc911x.c
> > + * History:
> > + *   05/05/2005 bahadir.balban@....com
> > + *     - Transition to linux coding style
> > + *     - Platform driver and module interface
> 
> i thought we were against this sort of changelog stuff in files.  let
> the scm take care of the changelog.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether the changelog in the file
should be kept or not and I won't argue. However, in this particular
instance there is no SCM log since the driver is not merged into the
mainline kernel. When/if it is merged, this will happen as a patch
without an SCM log.

-- 
Catalin

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