Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: Allow disabling of CONFIG_DEVPORT

Mike Waychison
2011-07-15T16:45:44Z

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 03:58:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > But none of them are on the Signed-off-by: line area, right?
>>
>> We have a fair number of people using things like
>>
>> Fixes-bug: [URL]
>>
>>
>> Its useful public info, it makes it easier to grep
>
> That's fine, but that is not what was done here.  And those URLs had
> better be public as well.
>

Greg, this is a bit ridiculous. If adding a bug reference number to a
patch isn't used in lieu of a good patch description, I don't see how
this hurts anybody in the public. You're only making it more
difficult for those who actually want to contribute to the public
sources.