Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262579AbVDGT4G (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:56:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262581AbVDGT4G (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:56:06 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:39063 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262579AbVDGT4C (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:56:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:56:25 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-ID: <20050407195625.GA9439@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <16980.55403.190197.751840@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <200504071300.51907.phillips@istop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504071300.51907.phillips@istop.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1374 Lines: 32 On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:00:51PM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:10, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Do you have it automated to the point where processing emailed patches > > > involves little more overhead than doing a bk pull? > > > > It's more overhead, but not a lot. Especially nice numbered sequences like > > Andrew sends (where I don't have to manually try to get the dependencies > > right by trying to figure them out and hope I'm right, but instead just > > sort by Subject: line)... > > Hi Linus, > > In that case, a nice refinement is to put the sequence number at the end of > the subject line so patch sequences don't interleave: > > Subject: [PATCH] Unbork OOM Killer (1 of 3) > Subject: [PATCH] Unbork OOM Killer (2 of 3) > Subject: [PATCH] Unbork OOM Killer (3 of 3) > Subject: [PATCH] Unbork OOM Killer (v2, 1 of 3) > Subject: [PATCH] Unbork OOM Killer (v2, 2 of 3) This breaks the rule of a descriptive subject for each patch. Consider 30 subjetcs telling you "Subject: PCI updates [001/030] That is not good. Sam - 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/