Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre9

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 29 May 2002 21:34:23 -0300 (BRT)


On Wed, 29 May 2002, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> On 2002-05-28T19:06:42,
> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> said:
>
> Good morning Marcelo, could you please also consider switching to the somewhat
> more dense format used by Linus recently? It makes the changelogs a lot more
> readable.

I guess I'll use Matthias changelog.pl. Havent tested it yet, though.

> As a further comment:
>
> > <greg@kroah.com> (02/05/03 1.408)
> > USB io_edgeport driver
> >
> > <davem@nuts.ninka.net> (02/05/06 1.383.11.22)
> > soft-fp fix:
> >
> > <colin@gibbs.dhs.org> (02/05/07 1.383.11.23)
> > copy_mm fix:
>
> and alike aren't actually very useful one-line summaries of the patch in
> question to a "casual" reader, sorry.

I got them through BK pull: I can't change comments of those patches.

David, Greg, and others, please, more readable changelogs :)

> In the first case, I can guess that probably, it is a new driver added; or
> maybe it is just an update to an existing one? In the later two, what is
> fixed? How does it affect my own code, or my running system?
>
> The good work by all contributors not withstanding, it would be very nice if
> they could make the summary slightly more useful before sending a patch to
> Marcelo, for which I would like to thank everyone in advance ;-)

I have to change a patch's changelog (which is the message body which
people send me in case of a GNU patch) pretty often to make it more
readable.

I just can't change all of them.

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