From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian McMenamin Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:23:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] SH/Dreamcast - fix regressions, whitespace and memory Message-Id: <1202113424.6489.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1202068847.6262.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080204011034.GA22021@linux-sh.org> In-Reply-To: <20080204011034.GA22021@linux-sh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mundt Cc: linux-sh , LKML , Greg KH On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 10:10 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:00:47PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > From: Adrian McMenamin > > > This is useless if you are submitting the patch, especially if you're > missing a mail address. > >From Documentation/SubmittingPatches The canonical patch message body contains the following: * * - A "from" line specifying the patch author. * > > This patch fixes the regression noted here: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/26/189 as well as whitespace issues in the > > previous commit of this driver and the memory leaks noted here: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/2/143 (as well as one or two other minor > > cleanups). > > > The subject notes 3 specific things that are being addressed, but you've > rolled this all in to one patch which makes it utterly impossible to > figure out what you're actually fixing. At the very least, split this in > to 3 different patches, each dealing with one of the things noted in the > subject. The fact that regressions is plural also suggests you may want > to split this down in to smaller patches that deal with specific > regressions if they are not directly related. > What would be the point of submitting patches of broken code just to remove the whitespace your previous commit added to all the lines? > > Signed off by: Adrian McMenamin > > > Do not invent new sign-off tags, see Documentation/SubmittingPatches. > Scripts do end up having to parse this stuff. Yes, sorry for that.