netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/12] net: add and use function dev_fetch_sw_netstats for fetching pcpu_sw

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Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:13:47 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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        Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/12] net: add and use function
 dev_fetch_sw_netstats for fetching pcpu_sw_netstats

On 14.10.2020 07:42, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 05:39:51PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:00:11 +0200 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>> In several places the same code is used to populate rtnl_link_stats64
>>> fields with data from pcpu_sw_netstats. Therefore factor out this code
>>> to a new function dev_fetch_sw_netstats().
>>>
>>> v2:
>>> - constify argument netstats
>>> - don't ignore netstats being NULL or an ERRPTR
>>> - switch to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>>
>> Applied, thank you!
> 
> Jakub,
> 
> Is it possible to make sure that changelogs are not part of the commit
> messages? We don't store previous revisions in the git repo, so it doesn't
> give too much to anyone who is looking on git log later. The lore link
> to the patch is more than enough.
> 
I remember that once I did it the usual way (changelog below the ---) David
requested the changelog to be part of the commit message. So obviously he
sees some benefit in doing so. 

> 44fa32f008ab ("net: add function dev_fetch_sw_netstats for fetching pcpu_sw_netstats")
> 
> Thanks
>