Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 May 2002 22:02:22 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre9 |
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On Wed, 29 May 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> > Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:34:23 -0300 (BRT) > > > > <davem@nuts.ninka.net> (02/05/06 1.383.11.22) > > > soft-fp fix: > > David, Greg, and others, please, more readable changelogs :) > > I don't understand what people want in that particular kind > of case. I made software fp emulation fixes, four of them to > be precise. And on the first line I describe in general what > I'm doing, which is soft-fp bug fixes :-) > > I do the same thing for a batch of sparc64 fixes, the first > line always is the toplevel description: > > sparc64 fixes: > > which proceeds the actual details: > > - Fix signal blah handling > - Don't bleh during ptrace > - Disable interrupts around foo > - Fix IP checksum calculations when bar > > Now tell me what is more appropriate on the first line and > I'll consider it :-)
sparc64 signal/ptrace/foo/net fixes ?
I'm not complaining exactly about _your_ changelogs, but I agree with lmb that the old format (hand written) was more readable I want help from everyone to change that.
Just keep in mind that changelog you're writting will be on the official changelog :)
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