From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:56:38 -0800 Message-ID: <20071217085638.0e4d4aac@deepthought> References: <20071211145243.66e1f66a@freepuppy.rosehill> <20071211145921.11094ab8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071211154835.75ace6bc@freepuppy.rosehill> <20071216.133717.202852113.davem@davemloft.net> <20071216142915.c120d25c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, berrange@redhat.com, jeff@garzik.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, rjw@sisk.pl To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:58493 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328AbXLQQ6a (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:58:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071216142915.c120d25c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:29:15 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:37:17 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote: > > > From: Stephen Hemminger > > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:48:35 -0800 > > > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address > > > > "bridge" should all-caps and in brackets, > > No, "bridge" should not be in []. Lots of people's patch-receiving scripts > assume that any text in [] is to be removed as the patch is committed. It > contains text which is only relevant to the particular email which carried > the patch. Stuff like "patch" and "4/5" and "linux-2.6.23", etc. > > > "assign random address" > > should be capitalized like a proper english sentence with a period at > > the end. > > Actually I usually remove the caps and the waste-of-space period, but > that's much less important than the brackets abuse. The bracket convention > is quite useful and I've often wondered why I need to edit the patch title > when I merge up patches from net developers ;) > I try to follow the title convention that Jeff was promoting. It works well because he is dealing with many different drivers. -- Stephen Hemminger