From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 May 2002 16:27:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 May 2002 16:27:31 -0400 Received: from cambot.suite224.net ([209.176.64.2]:29189 "EHLO suite224.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 May 2002 16:27:30 -0400 Message-ID: <000901c1f9f3$f399da00$87f583d0@pcs686> From: "Matthew D. Pitts" To: , "Linus Torvalds" In-Reply-To: <20020512010709.7a973fac.spyro@armlinux.org> Subject: Re: Changelogs on kernel.org Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 16:31:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus, It would help if the some of the people that used BK would bother to be more descriptive about the stuff they send. I will have some patches for 2.5.x from my personal stash as soon as i get the bugs worked out of them... Matthew D. Pitts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linus Torvalds" To: Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: Re: Changelogs on kernel.org > In article <20020512010709.7a973fac.spyro@armlinux.org>, > Ian Molton wrote: > > > >I dont know who to write to about this, but the changelogs for > >2.4.19-pre on kernel.org are COMPLETELY illegible. > > Hmm.. > > You're definitely right about the BK version numbers, since those are > meaningless anyway (they are only meaningful within one BK tree, and > they change over time when you merge different trees together. > > The 2.4.x changelogs seem to be done with my "release" scripts, but > additionally they don't have the same kind of detailed information that > the 2.5.x kernels have, and yes, the result is fairly ugly. > > What are peoples opinion about the "full" changelog format that v2.5.x > kernels have? Should we sort that too by author? > > Perl is the obvious choice for doing transformations like these. Is > anybody willing to write a perl script that does the "sort by author" > thing? > > I'll remove the date/BK ID thing, so that my unsorted changelogs would > look like the appended thing. But yes, sorting (and merging) by author > would probably be a good thing. (My BK changelog scripts can also add > markers around the actual log message, to make parsing easier). > > Linus > > ----- > > Summary of changes from v2.5.13 to v2.5.14 > ============================================ > > > A bunch of fixes. > > > Pmac updates > > > Some more small fixes. > > > [PATCH] 2.5.13: vmalloc link failure > > The following patch fixes this, and also fixes the similar problem in > scsi_debug.c: > > > [PATCH] in_ntoa link failure > > Nothing serious. Whoever it was that did that global replacemissed a > spot is all... > > > [PATCH] change_floppy() fix > > Needed both in 2.4 and 2.5 > ... > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/