Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

Linus Torvalds
2002-05-13T02:02:25Z

In article <873cwx2hi4.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>,
Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> wrote:
>
>For your example, the result is:
>
><jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com>
> A bunch of fixes.
>
> Pmac updates
>
> Some more small fixes.
>
><rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
> [PATCH] 2.5.13: vmalloc link failure
>
> The following patch fixes this, and also fixes the similar problem in
> scsi_debug.c:
>
><trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
> [PATCH] in_ntoa link failure
>
> Nothing serious. Whoever it was that did that global replacemissed a
> spot is all...
>
><viro@math.psu.edu>
> [PATCH] change_floppy() fix
>
> Needed both in 2.4 and 2.5
>
>
>IMHO, it doesn't make much sense.

It doesn't make much sense that way, but if you also made the
descriptions shorter (first line only) _and_ then packed them, it would
give a much denser overview. Oh, and remove any [PATCH] marker: I just
use them to keep track of which were imported as email-patches vs which
were done "natively" with BK..

So you'd have something like:

jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com:
A bunch of fixes.
Pmac updates
Some more small fixes.

rmk@arm.linux.org.uk:
2.5.13: vmalloc link failure

trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no:
in_ntoa link failure

viro@math.psu.edu:
change_floppy() fix

which I could more easily post to linux-kernel (possibly after some
minor hand-editing) because it wouldn't end up being 20kB worth of text
that not everybody is interested in reading.

Hmm?

Linus