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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lguest <lguest@ozlabs.org>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:37:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471E5B74.8030900@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710230903330.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Well, with that out the way, and some scatterlist fixups, please pull from
>>
>> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest.git

Also, please add a "lguest: " prefix to all future commits.

Otherwise, in the one-line summary, it is impossible to tell what 
portion of the kernel is being updated:

	Use "struct boot_params" in example launcher
	Loading bzImage directly.
	Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming.
	Pagetables to use normal kernel types
	Move register setup into i386_core.c
	Accept elf files that are valid but have sections that can not
		be mmap'ed for some reason.

git tools are all keyed to use that first line as a summary of the 
changeset, without giving any other context whatsoever.  See Linus's 
2.6.X-rcY announcements, for example.

This is also described in akpm's 
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt or my 
http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-23 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-22  2:37 [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code Rusty Russell
2007-10-23  2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-23  6:03   ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-23  6:55     ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-23  7:44       ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-23 16:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-23 20:37       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-25  5:19       ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-25  6:31         ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-10-25 22:41         ` Linus Torvalds

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