Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752152Ab0HUTpf (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:45:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40606 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751478Ab0HUTpe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:45:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100821193241.GB4760@const.famille.thibault.fr> References: <20100821193241.GB4760@const.famille.thibault.fr> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:45:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP To: Samuel Thibault , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Nick Piggin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1768 Lines: 41 On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP > > The "Configure" word tends to make user believe they have to say 'yes' > to be able to choose the number of procs/nodes. ?"Enable" should be > unambiguous enough. What broken patch-generation tools do you use, btw? Nick Piggin has the same problem: the Subject of the patch gets repeated as the first line of the body of the thing, which is very annoying. Either I have to go in and edit the email (which I try to do), or the thing gets repeated in the commit message. Yes, the summary line is interesting, but it's _not_ interesting enough that people want to see it twice. (See commit 99b7db7b8ffd for an example of where it got repeated twice - Al Viro isn't as anal as me about commit messages, and clearly didn't edit the email before applying it). If you want to repeat the summary line, please repeat the "Subject:" part of the line too, so that the tools automatically see that it's just a repeat of the Subject: line. Same goes if you want to add author information: make sure that the author information has that "From: " prepended to it. And if it really is a tool that creates these buggy patch messages with duplicate summary information, please let's just fix that buggy crud. I edited this by hand, but it annoys me when I have to do mindless silly stuff just because people submit broken patch descriptions. Linus -- 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/