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From: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Gerhard Sittig" <gsi@denx.de>,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Christian Hohnstaedt" <chohnstaedt@innominate.com>,
	"Krzysztof Hałasa" <khalasa@piap.pl>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [ARM] Fix kernel compile error: drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c.
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:25:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140102002515.GD19878@titan.lakedaemon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140101124625.GF16456@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 12:46:25PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 01:37:46PM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> > Last time I checked (few days ago, 'git grep -w Fixes:') it
> > wasn't, at least not within the kernel source tree and its
> > Documentation hierarchy.  Today's master still does not have it.
> > 
> > But a quick search in recent LAKML messages reveals that it's
> > been in use by e.g. Olof Johansson, Jason Cooper, Rusty Russell,
> > Dan Carpenter, Russell King, Mark Brown, Stephen Warren, Paul
> > Walmsley, and I'm not making this up but am just referring to
> > what repeatedly was requested in the past.  The form used there
> > was "Fixes: <hash> (<oneline>)" though.  A doc update may be due
> > to have a canonical format.
> 
> It was discussed at kernel summit, and I believe the resulting format
> was only published in one of the kernel summit mailing lists.  The
> outcome of it as I understand was that the format is:
> 
> Fixes: <hash> ("<one line summary>")

fwiw, Linus also recommended setting core.abbrev = 12.

thx,

Jason.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-02  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-31 10:51 [ARM] Fix kernel compile error: drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c Krzysztof Hałasa
2013-12-31 13:48 ` Gerhard Sittig
2013-12-31 18:01   ` Randy Dunlap
2014-01-01 12:37     ` Gerhard Sittig
2014-01-01 12:46       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-02  0:25         ` Jason Cooper [this message]
2013-12-31 18:14   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-01 12:18     ` Gerhard Sittig
2014-01-02  8:42       ` About Mail-Followup-To and Mutt [Was: Re: [ARM] Fix kernel compile error: drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c] Uwe Kleine-König
2014-01-02 10:35         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-02 18:33           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-02 17:51         ` Mark Brown
2014-01-01  6:06 ` [ARM] Fix kernel compile error: drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c Herbert Xu

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