Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756027AbZDPLDG (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:03:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755388AbZDPLCw (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:02:52 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41751 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754537AbZDPLCv (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:02:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:47 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Miller Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c Message-ID: <20090416110047.GA10487@infradead.org> References: <20090415133255.b6a33bfe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090415210353.GA27368@elte.hu> <20090415.164936.138481210.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090415.164936.138481210.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 19 On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:49:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT) > > > Instead of havign that IDIOTIC "Impact:" marker, why not just write good > > commit messages? > > Amen. Yeah, please write proper commit messages. Just make sure the first sentence mentiones what's fixed/cleaned up/added/generalized and then go into the details later. Often enough it might be more than one of those.. -- 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/