Re: [GIT PULL] mtd: Changes for 6.17

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On 04/08/2025 at 08:53:14 -07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 at 07:40, Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I'm fine either ways, but I assumed until now that the preferred form
>> > was plain text descriptions.
>>
>> Okay, fair enough. I can do plain text next time around.
>
> I'm actually fine either way - what I care about is that it's a
> human-readable explanation of what is going on, and what I get when I
> pull.

[...]

> (And yes, I often find myself to be that person: I bisect some issue
> pretty much every single merge window, and while I usually have a good
> idea of what is going on, and just trust "git bisect" to do the right
> thing, I *do* end up looking back at merges to see where I am in the
> bisection process)

:)

> It can be bullet points when that makes sense, or it can be more of a
> plain text explanation of the background to a change.

Thanks Linus for the detailed answer.

Pratyush, I guess I'll switch back to bullet points to highlight what
are the important changes, so you can stick to what you were doing. If I
feel like plain text would be sometimes better I might mix both
occasionally.

Thanks,
Miquèl

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