Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757917AbZGKBBl (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:01:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757626AbZGKBBb (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:01:31 -0400 Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.5]:61634 "EHLO vms173005pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757558AbZGKBBa (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:01:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:01:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Len Brown X-X-Sender: lenb@localhost.localdomain To: Ingo Molnar Cc: x86@kernel.org, sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 for 2.6.32] SFI - Simple Firmware Interface support In-reply-to: <20090710051848.GB22218@elte.hu> Message-id: References: <1247026438-20891-1-git-send-email-lenb@kernel.org> <20090710051848.GB22218@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2444 Lines: 63 > > > Feng Tang (10): > > SFI, x86: add CONFIG_SFI > > SFI: document boot param "sfi=off" > > SFI: create include/linux/sfi.h > > SFI: add core support > > ACPI, x86: remove ACPI dependency on some IO-APIC routines > > SFI: add x86 support > > SFI, x86: hook e820() for memory map initialization > > SFI: Enable SFI to parse ACPI tables > > SFI, PCI: Hook MMCONFIG > > SFI: add boot-time initialization hooks > > Now that commit quality is all the rage, let me point out a > (trivial) detail that could be improved: patch title capitalization. > > In particular for commits touching arch/x86/ we try to standardize > on capitalizing the word after the 'x86: ' tag. But in the above > titles the capitalization is mixed-case: > > [aligned vertically for easier readability ] > > > SFI, x86: add CONFIG_SFI > > SFI: document boot param "sfi=off" > > SFI: create include/linux/sfi.h > > SFI: add core support > > ACPI, x86: remove ACPI dependency on some IO-APIC routines > > SFI: add x86 support > > SFI, x86: hook e820() for memory map initialization > > SFI: Enable SFI to parse ACPI tables > > SFI, PCI: Hook MMCONFIG > > SFI: add boot-time initialization hooks > > So it would be more consistent to have: > > > SFI, x86: Add CONFIG_SFI > > SFI: Document boot param "sfi=off" > > SFI: Create include/linux/sfi.h > > SFI: Add core support > > ACPI, x86: Remove ACPI dependency on some IO-APIC routines > > SFI: Add x86 support > > SFI, x86: Hook e820() for memory map initialization > > SFI: Enable SFI to parse ACPI tables > > SFI, PCI: Hook MMCONFIG > > SFI: Add boot-time initialization hooks > > ( Capitalizing like that has the added (minor) benefit of making it > slightly easier to read these titles - the 'real' natural language > sentence portion of the title begins with a capital letter. ) Ingo, While I really do appreciate your attention to detail, a little time off might be good for you:-) cheers, -Len -- 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/