Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755472AbXJIGNZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:13:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752051AbXJIGNP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:13:15 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:45676 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751711AbXJIGNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:13:14 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <470B1BA9.7080509@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:11:53 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070807 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Scott Preece , "J. Bruce Fields" , Randy Dunlap , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jan Engelhardt , Sam Ravnborg , Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight References: <25555.1191864285@lwn.net> <20071008185225.GK2902@fieldses.org> <7b69d1470710081226w5b6682e6q56bfa2af5ae3f017@mail.gmail.com> <200710082216.28227.rjw@sisk.pl> <20071009020750.GB4504@goodmis.org> In-Reply-To: <20071009020750.GB4504@goodmis.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 819 Lines: 20 Steven Rostedt wrote: > But for those that run test suites, they should be smart enough to put > in more documentation into the change log to state how it was tested. I disagree. The SCM changelog should contain _what_ a patch does and if necessary _why_ it does so. The rest (e.g. the sign-off tag to state that the licensing is alright, and any other tags) should have its meaning sufficiently defined outside the changelog. Remember what the SCM changelog is for, i.e. what we do with it after commit. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =-=- -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/