From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755368AbbAFNui (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 08:50:38 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f182.google.com ([209.85.192.182]:56417 "EHLO mail-pd0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754501AbbAFNug (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 08:50:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:20:25 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Konrad Zapalowicz Cc: Ian Abbott , Piotr Kubus , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: dmm32at: Fixed a code indent issue Message-ID: <20150106135025.GA17196@sudip-PC> References: <1420384955-27336-1-git-send-email-p.t.kubus@gmail.com> <20150104223129.GF25819@t400> <20150105192406.GA2686@PiotrekLap> <20150106060226.GA4285@sudip-PC> <54ABB425.1080207@mev.co.uk> <20150106102730.GA26052@sudip-PC> <20150106133327.GG25819@t400> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150106133327.GG25819@t400> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:33:27PM +0100, Konrad Zapalowicz wrote: > On 01/06, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > yes, i read the SubmittingPatches again. summary is the subject line. But then as Piotr Kubus has written that he could not find this rule in the documentaion, I also tried to find that in SubmittingPatches file and also in the Posting file of the development-process folder, but could not find it. Is it mentioned in some other file we missed ? > > Then it is an 'unwritten rule' :) You can observe it just be browsing > the git log commit messages - pick a few random and you will see. i don't need to veify it, I don't doubt the rule. if you see all the patches i have sent, i have always maintained a rule of 70. just curious why this 72 .. this one gives a reason why - http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html sudip > > Moreover in the http://git-scm.com/book/ch5-2.html the 72-character > columns are the example of the good commit message plus Linus says so: > > "we use 72-character columns for word-wrapping, except for quoted > material that has a specific line format." > > in one of his comments > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5661185 > > cheers, > konrad > > > sudip > > > > > > -- > > > -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: )=- > > > -=( Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/ )=-