From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755975Ab3BAPlK (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:41:10 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:50238 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752703Ab3BAPlF (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:41:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:43:06 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add penalty for forcing a maintainer to edit a patch Message-ID: <20130201154306.GA28473@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Maintainers have to hand-edit patches (body of patches and changelog entries) all the time. There needs to be some kind of penalty put into place to keep developers from abusing maintainers. Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c379a2a..d1bec01 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ includes updates for subsystem X. Please apply." The maintainer will thank you if you write your patch description in a form which can be easily pulled into Linux's source code management -system, git, as a "commit log". See #15, below. +system, git, as a "commit log". See #15, below. If the maintainer has +to hand-edit your patch, you owe them the beverage of their choice the +next time you see them. If your description starts to get long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your patch. See #3, next.