Re: [PATCH 00/29] cxlflash: Miscellaneous bug fixes and corrections

[Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>]

Hi Matt & Manoj,

Can you also add linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org to the Cc list for
version 2?

Cheers,
-Ian

Excerpts from Matthew R. Ochs's message of 2015-09-15 06:12:29 +1000:
> > On Sep 13, 2015, at 8:12 PM, Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Matt & Manoj,
> > 
> > Just a general comment about this series - I'd like to see more detailed
> > commit messages for almost all these patches. Of course James is the
> > scsi maintainer and it's up to him whether to take these as is or not,
> > but generally when you write a commit message for a bug fix you want to
> > explain:
> > 
> > - What problem can occur, possibly including an example
> > - Why it occurs
> > - How this patch addresses it
> > 
> > You don't necessarily need to go overboard because at some point people
> > can just read the code, but some of these patches don't have any detail
> > beyond a single subject line, which is too little.
> > 
> > Speaking of the subject line - if the patch is fixing a bug there should
> > be some indication of that in the subject (it should probably include
> > the word "fix" somewhere). If the subject just states what you are
> > changing then it's not immediately obvious that it is a bug fix.
> 
> This is a reasonable request. Will incorporate your suggestions
> and send out in a v2 series. Thanks for the examples of what you
> would like to see.
> 
> 
> -matt