Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752171Ab0HUULj (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:11:39 -0400 Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:35716 "EHLO solo.fdn.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751478Ab0HUULg (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:11:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:10:54 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP Message-ID: <20100821201054.GF4760@const.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , Sam Ravnborg , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Nick Piggin References: <20100821193241.GB4760@const.famille.thibault.fr> <20100821195559.GC4760@const.famille.thibault.fr> <20100821200528.GA27421@merkur.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20100821200528.GA27421@merkur.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 25 Sam Ravnborg, le Sat 21 Aug 2010 22:05:28 +0200, a ?crit : > The canonical patch subject line is: > > Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase > > - The body of the explanation, which will be copied to the > permanent changelog to describe this patch. > > That should do it. We cannot tell what should NOT be done. Yes, but according to what is above, we need to repeat the subject, else it won't be in the changelog. Actually, this is probably where it should be said 'do not repeat the subject, it will already be included'. > If you use git then it is trivial to commit your changes and > generate patches using "git format-patch ..." That's just one case. See above for the general case. Samuel -- 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/