From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: acourbot@nvidia.com (Alexandre Courbot) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:15:50 +0900 Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: tegra: Fixed typo In-Reply-To: <56A883C7.9000007@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> References: <1453827558-10954-1-git-send-email-ralf@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> <1453827558-10954-2-git-send-email-ralf@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> <56A883C7.9000007@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> Message-ID: <56A88AC6.4090105@nvidia.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 01/27/16 17:45, Ralf Ramsauer wrote: > On 01/27/2016 08:59 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: >> Hey Ralf, thanks for following up with patches as we discussed in private! >> >> Small nit: you will want to use the active form ("Fix typo" instead of >> "Fixed typo") in your commit messages. > So even my language skills got improved ;-) This is grammatically correct, but using imperative form is the convention in the kernel. As per Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its behaviour. >> It would also be nice if the commit title was a little more precise >> about where the typo has been corrected. > Uhm - as this is be pretty small non-diff-related change... Is it > necessary to send a v3 or would it also be okay to let the maintainer > amend the subject? > (to sth.: like "ARM: tegra: Fix the same C&P typo in several dts includes") Let's see what Thierry says about this.