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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> 	jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com:
>		A bunch of fixes.
>		Pmac updates
>		Some more small fixes.
>	rmk@arm.linux.org.uk:
>		2.5.13: vmalloc link failure
>
>	trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no:
>		in_ntoa link failure
>
>	viro@math.psu.edu:
>		change_floppy() fix
>


Picking on your examples, the first IMO needs more context.

(speaking more to the crowd...)
Changeset comments need to be written as if they stand alone, without 
any other context -- including the author.  A reader should not need to 
know that (for examples) James Simmons hacks on fbdev stuff.

    Jeff