The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Cheng Shengyu <cheng.shengyu@zte.com.cn>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
	Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>,
	Xue Zhihong <xue.zhihong@zte.com.cn>,
	Zhong Shiqi <zhong.shiqi@zte.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] coccicheck: support $COCCI being defined as a directory
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:55:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37ad0bcd-941d-e02e-ae99-e89f2ce98ff0@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910240816040.2771@hadrien>

> Second the commit log could be more concise as:

I like your desire for choosing a more appropriate commit message.


> Allow defining COCCI as a directory that contains .cocci files.

I would prefer to concentrate the patch subject on other information.


> In general, at least in simple cases, it is not necessary to mention the
> name of the file you are modifying in the comit log, because one can see
> that just below from looking at the diffstat and the patch.

This view can be reasonable. - How does it fit to the usual requirement
for the specification of a “subsystem” (or “prefix”) according to the
canonical patch format?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=13b86bc4cd648eae69fdcf3d04b2750c76350053#n656

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-24  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-24  6:04 [PATCH v2] coccicheck:support $COCCI being defined as a directory zhongshiqi
2019-10-24  6:19 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-24  7:55   ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2019-10-24  7:58     ` [PATCH v2] coccicheck: support " Julia Lawall
2019-10-24  9:11       ` [v2] " Markus Elfring
2019-10-24  7:06 ` [PATCH v2] " Markus Elfring

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=37ad0bcd-941d-e02e-ae99-e89f2ce98ff0@web.de \
    --to=markus.elfring@web.de \
    --cc=Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr \
    --cc=cheng.shengyu@zte.com.cn \
    --cc=cocci@systeme.lip6.fr \
    --cc=julia.lawall@lip6.fr \
    --cc=kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=michal.lkml@markovi.net \
    --cc=nicolas.palix@imag.fr \
    --cc=wang.yi59@zte.com.cn \
    --cc=xue.zhihong@zte.com.cn \
    --cc=yamada.masahiro@socionext.com \
    --cc=zhong.shiqi@zte.com.cn \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox