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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix to use index to HW queue assigned to PF
 instead of queus 0 - nb_rx_queues which belong to VF in SR-IOV
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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:57:10 -0700
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:55:40 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>=20
> On 8/26/2016 11:09 AM, azelezniak wrote:
> > From: Alex Zelezniak <alexz@att.com>
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Zelezniak <alexz@att.com>
> > --- =20
>=20
> Thank you for the patch, not related to the patch content but related to
> the patch format:
> patch subject is too long, it is expected to be around 50 characters,
> can you please move some of information to the patch commit log?
>=20
> Also since this is a fix, commit log requires a Fixes line.
>=20
> More details on:
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html#sending-patches
>=20
> Thanks,
> ferruh
>=20

The subject line of the patch email becomes the first line of the
git commit message. This also documented on 'git commit' man page.

DISCUSSION
       Though not required, it=E2=80=99s a good idea to begin the commit me=
ssage with
       a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change,
       followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.

Overly long summary lines are flagged as errors by tools like Debian lintia=
n.