Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Fri, 30 May 2003 09:57:26 +0100


On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:01:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> BTW, can you use more consistent changeset messages? I always
> at least allude to what is being changed, for example I changed
> all of your messages to be of the form:
>
> [ATM]: Blah blah blah in HE driver.
>
> This tells the reader that:
>
> 1) It's an ATM change.
> 2) It's to the HE driver.
> 3) The change made was "Blah blah blah" :-)

I'd also add...
4) keep the first line a brief oneliner summary, as it
gets truncated when Linus generates the shortlog.

A number of people (self included) have adopted this
impromptu 'standard' for bk comments. Maybe it should
get documented in Documentation/BK-usage/bk-kernel-howto.txt

Dave

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