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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Rob Gill <rrobgill@protonmail.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, balbi@kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, johan@kernel.org, oneukum@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] driver/usb MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to usb modules
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:14:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200703201415.GA632596@rowland.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200703045811.28154-1-rrobgill@protonmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 04:58:55AM +0000, Rob Gill wrote:
> The user tool modinfo is used to get information on kernel modules, including a
> description where it is available.

Did you notice that this sentence has no relation to the purpose or 
contents of the patch?

Instead of talking about a user tool, the description should explain the 
reason for the patch and why it is important.

Alan Stern

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-03 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-03  4:58 [PATCH v4] driver/usb MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to usb modules Rob Gill
2020-07-03  7:50 ` Johan Hovold
2020-07-03 20:14 ` Alan Stern [this message]

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