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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: matt mooney <mfmooney@gmail.com>
Cc: T Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Staging: Fixed <module-objs> to <module>-y
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 06:46:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101008134654.GA6600@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinynZj9bYFAyfRTF2uopmLe6Ls4YGdZPqCAJTpR@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:16:35AM -0700, matt mooney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM, T Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I patch against the next-20101006 tree.
> >
> > The patch series replace use of <module>-objs with <module>-y in the
> > staging directory.
> 
> Commit messages are written in the present tense. You happen to be
> using two different tenses within the commit message, which is truly
> odd.  And why did you not split apart those atrocious statements with
> the infinite column width?

As Dan said, we understand what is happening here, and we do not have
grammer police for changelog comments, thank goodness.

> This patch series adds little benefit.  As Sam has suggested, a more
> general cleanup would be a better goal, and staging is an area that
> needs extra attention some of which has already been pointed out in
> other emails.

But these patches are all good to have, so I will be applying them,
please don't think they are unwanted at all.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-08 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-08  1:35 [PATCH 00/33] Staging: Fixed <module-objs> to <module>-y T Dent
2010-10-08  7:16 ` matt mooney
2010-10-08  8:39   ` T Dent
2010-10-08  8:55   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-08 18:05     ` matt mooney
2010-10-08 13:46   ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-08 18:09     ` matt mooney
2010-10-08 18:33       ` Greg KH
2010-10-08 20:02       ` Sam Ravnborg

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