Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752395Ab1CHFbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 00:31:49 -0500 Received: from LUNGE.MIT.EDU ([18.54.1.69]:48154 "EHLO lunge.queued.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281Ab1CHFbr (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 00:31:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 05:32:26 +0000 From: Andres Salomon To: Mark Brown Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , Samuel Ortiz , Stephen Rothwell , Amit Kucheria , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Sascha Hauer , Uwe Kleine-K?nig , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: mx51_efika: update platform data for new mfd changes Message-ID: <20110308053226.7300e65d@debxo> In-Reply-To: <20110307144700.GF1829@sirena.org.uk> References: <20110304080653.3f2c3f19@debxo> <4D710FF9.6040305@ru.mvista.com> <20110304083822.0f40d120@debxo> <4D713670.70506@ru.mvista.com> <20110307144700.GF1829@sirena.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1280 Lines: 31 On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:47:00 +0000 Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:58:56PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Andres Salomon wrote: > > >>>> MFD changes in c738892f cause the mc13xxx_platform_data struct > > >>> Linus asks to also specify the commit summary in parens. > > >> Also, what? If there are changes to how patches should be > >> submitted, please provide a reference > >> (Documentation/SubmittingPatches should be updated, as well). > > > I have no time to rummage in the mail archives, sorry. > > There's been multiple discussions of this. The issue is that commit > IDs only mean something in specific trees and go bad if someone > rebases, and they aren't legibile by humans (so even if the commit is > in something like Linus' tree the reader still needs a git repository > to figure out what changes are being talked about). Ah, thanks, that makes sense. Sergei's original statement was unclear ("...instead of just the commit ID" would've helped). -- 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/