Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755835AbXJIGkP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:40:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752833AbXJIGkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:40:00 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:46441 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752050AbXJIGj7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:39:59 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <470B220A.6080102@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:39:06 +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: Sam Ravnborg CC: Steven Rostedt , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Scott Preece , "J. Bruce Fields" , Randy Dunlap , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jan Engelhardt , 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> <470B1BA9.7080509@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20071009062757.GA22303@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20071009062757.GA22303@uranus.ravnborg.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: 735 Lines: 20 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:11:53AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> The SCM changelog should contain _what_ a patch does and if >> necessary _why_ it does so. > The _why_ part is more important than _what_. The diff should hopefully > explain the _what_ part. "What": fix lockup in this and that circumstances "Why": because lockups are annoying "How": the diff (That's what I meant with what and why.) -- 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/