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From: "Wu, Bryan" <bryan.wu@analog.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: bryan.wu@analog.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin arch: add kdebug header file
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:40:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174966837.6966.13.camel@roc-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703262345.09489.arnd@arndb.de>

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 23:45 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I can see nothing wrong with your patches, but you should make the
> patch descriptions a little clearer:
> 

Thanks Arnd. I posted almost ten patches yesterday. Converting ten
patches to preformatted Emails is terrible manually, you know.

How does a kernel guru to do this, send out dozens of patch emails a
day? Is there any convenient tools to help this?

> On Monday 26 March 2007, Wu, Bryan wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> 
> No need for this line, if it's there, Andrew just needs to remove
> it from the changelog.
> 
> > This patch adds kdebug.h header file to blackfin architecture.
> 
> This line is completely redundant, as it states the same information
> as the subject. You should give some background information here,
> like:
> 
> kdebug.h is needed for kprobes.
> 
> For trivial patches where the subject already tells the whole story
> (e.g. 'remove redundant declaration of foo'), just leave out the
> description entirely except for the Signed-off-by.
> 
> 	Arnd <><
> you can even leave out the description

I really appreciate your warmly advice.

Best Regards,
Bryan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-27  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-26 10:12 [PATCH -mm] Blackfin arch: add kdebug header file Wu, Bryan
2007-03-26 21:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-27  3:40   ` Wu, Bryan [this message]
2007-03-27  3:57     ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-27  4:34       ` Mike Frysinger
2007-03-27  4:49         ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-27  5:17           ` Mike Frysinger
2007-03-27  5:27             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-27  5:40               ` Wu, Bryan
2007-03-27  8:27                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-03-27 15:34                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-28  2:06                   ` Wu, Bryan
2007-03-28  2:13                     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-27  5:32             ` Wu, Bryan

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