Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752712AbaJLOcG (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:32:06 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:42242 "EHLO mail-vc0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751774AbaJLOcD (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:32:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:32:01 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xQdKOPeEeH9waNVINZcoNL55sAg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT] Security subsystem upate for 3.18 From: Linus Torvalds To: James Morris , Paul Moore Cc: LSM List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Stephen Rothwell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Give me a synopsis of what has changed and why I should pull. Side note: this is not just for me personally (so that I have a better overview of what is going on during the merge window), but also so that I can make sure that my merge messages are informative and tell people what I merged and why. In a perfect world, people could just read my merge messages and get a good overview of everything that has changed. But that depends on maintainers giving me those nice summaries of what the big important changes have been for that merge. I can, and occasionally do, try to write something up myself, but quite frankly, subsystem maintainers are just *so* much better positioned to give a good summary of what has been going on, that I really want that. Of course, sometimes the summary might just be "a few trivial fixes" and then people who really want the details can just look at the individual commits. At other times, maybe you'd want to go into more detail about some subtle change. There's no fixed format, but it's supposed to be a human-readable quick high-level overview of what the merge brings in. You can just do "git log --author=Torvalds --merges" to see examples of what people send me. Some people explain more, some explain less, I really don't have any hard requirements. But I do want to get *some* overview. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/