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From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:24:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090302182456.GF19744@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090302100158.bb83bec6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:01:58AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I think what triggered this was a patch from Mark which had no
> changelog and which had me sitting there wondering wtf it does, whether
> we need it in 2.6.29, whether we need it in 2.6.28.x and earlier and me
> not having the foggiest clue then getting grumpy.

Do you mean no changelog in the body of the e-mail here?  I'm assuming
now that you mean no changelog in the body but when you say "no
changelog" that reads differently.  I'm not saying the changelog was
perfect here but your comments really do read like you felt there was
nothing at all.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27 18:05 [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies Mark Brown
2009-02-28 13:58 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 15:58   ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 16:14     ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 16:46       ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 17:33         ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 17:52           ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 19:25             ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 21:02               ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 23:01                 ` Stefan Richter
2009-03-01  0:18                   ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-01  0:46                     ` Mark Brown
2009-03-01  2:53                       ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-02 13:15                         ` Mark Brown
2009-03-02 15:15                           ` Stefan Richter
2009-03-02 16:01                             ` Mark Brown
2009-03-02 18:01                             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-02 18:24                               ` Mark Brown [this message]
2009-03-02 18:34                                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-02 18:43                                   ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-02 19:19                                   ` Mark Brown
2009-03-02 19:57                                     ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-02 20:38                                       ` Mark Brown
2009-03-10 18:19                     ` Andy Whitcroft
2009-02-28 17:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-28 17:47   ` Mark Brown

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