Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

[torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)]

In article <873cwx2hi4.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>,
Florian Weimer  <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> wrote:
>
>For your example, the result is:
>
><jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com>
>        A bunch of fixes.
>
>        Pmac updates
>
>        Some more small fixes.
>
><rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
>        [PATCH] 2.5.13: vmalloc link failure
>        
>        The following patch fixes this, and also fixes the similar problem in
>        scsi_debug.c:
>
><trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
>        [PATCH] in_ntoa link failure
>        
>        Nothing serious. Whoever it was that did that global replacemissed a
>        spot is all...
>
><viro@math.psu.edu>
>        [PATCH] change_floppy() fix
>        
>        Needed both in 2.4 and 2.5
>
>
>IMHO, it doesn't make much sense.

It doesn't make much sense that way, but if you also made the
descriptions shorter (first line only) _and_ then packed them, it would
give a much denser overview. Oh, and remove any [PATCH] marker: I just
use them to keep track of which were imported as email-patches vs which
were done "natively" with BK..

So you'd have something like:

	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

which I could more easily post to linux-kernel (possibly after some
minor hand-editing) because it wouldn't end up being 20kB worth of text
that not everybody is interested in reading. 

Hmm?

		Linus