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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:04:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090415230425.GA13744@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415141706.096b3b64.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:03:53 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > what can we do?
> 
> Write better patch titles?

Lets start with a patch title that you wrote:

| commit 6b44003e5ca66a3fffeb5bc90f40ada2c4340896
| Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| Date:   Thu Apr 9 09:50:37 2009 -0600
|
|     work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand
|
|     Impact: circular locking bugfix

... and to which Rusty added an impact line.

Where is the impact in that title you wrote? How could it have been 
written differently to include the impact? Why didnt you give it a 
better title? How can you expect us to do a better title if you 
yourself dont do titles with impact information?

If the impact cannot be included, can it be included elsewhere in 
the commit perhaps? If it can be included elsewhere in the commit, 
is it allowed to be summarized in a structured way, or must it stay 
mixed into a free-flowing text description?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200904140159.n3E1x1K1014705@hera.kernel.org>
2009-04-14  2:05 ` Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15  5:44   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 10:44     ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-15 15:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 16:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 16:46           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 17:00             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 17:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 18:47             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 19:43               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 20:07                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 20:32                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 21:03                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 21:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 22:40                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 23:08                         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16  0:08                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16  0:23                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16  0:38                               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16  0:50                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16  4:33                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-16  7:14                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 15:24                                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-15 23:49                       ` David Miller
2009-04-16 11:00                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-15 21:17                     ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 23:04                       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-15 21:23                 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 22:48                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 23:11                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16  0:44                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16  1:03                         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16  1:46                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16  2:22                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16  7:23                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16  3:55                             ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16  7:44                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 15:41                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-16 13:04                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-16  2:00               ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16  2:22                 ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-04-16  2:34                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16  3:10                 ` Ray Lee
2009-04-16  7:56                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 11:57                   ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16 13:55                 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-04-20  8:14                   ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-20 10:38                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-22  4:18                       ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-21 19:37                     ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-04-22  1:58                       ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16  1:27         ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-16  2:31           ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-16  8:02             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 15:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-15 15:22       ` Ali Gholami Rudi
2009-04-15 16:41       ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found] <crh66-6nQ-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <crilu-8hM-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <crjhu-1lb-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <crkQl-3QL-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <crm5K-5NR-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <crmyK-6DP-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <crnXV-g5-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <croh9-VK-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]               ` <croTQ-1Jm-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]                 ` <crqVM-4UC-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-04-16  5:46                   ` Niel Lambrechts

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