Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:32:14 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8 v4] mpc83xx_wdt rework, support for mpc8610 and mpc8xx |
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:17:39 +0400 Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> > Please put the subsystem identifier (eg, "watchdog" and "powerpc") > > outside the [], for reasons which should be in > > Documentation/SubmittingPatches, which used to be there but which got > > lost. Bascially the text inside [] is for temporary not-for-committing > > information such as "rfc", "2.6.24-rc4", "resend", etc and should be stripped > > by the email recipient before merging. > > Yeah, I know. It is just hard to remember all the preferences. > > For example, PowerPC maintainers asking to do patches with "[POWERPC]" > identifier, this identifier purposely keeps intact for git-log.
Addition of "[powerpc]" if it was absent can be scripted.
However, the retaining of "[powerpc]" (etc) while not retaining "[rfc]" (etc) is not practical.
Plus putting things into git with "[powerpc]" in the title is wrong. The chances are good that anyone who is taking such a patch off the git-commits list (say, for a backport) will lose that part of the title. It should be "powerpc: "
(http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dh.gif)
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