> 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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