From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT] net: Fix Neptune ethernet driver to check dma mapping error Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120720.143005.135422510157595877.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1342819679.5434.50.camel@lorien2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mcarlson@broadcom.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shuahkhan@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org To: shuah.khan@hp.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1342819679.5434.50.camel@lorien2> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Shuah Khan Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:27:59 -0600 > Request for testing, since I don't have the hardware to test. This is not how you post a patch. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- When you put those "---..." there, GIT is going to eliminate everything afterwards from the commit mesage when I apply this. Yet afterwards is what your commit message actually is. You therefore should do things the other way around, provide the commit message text, then the "---..." line, then your comments you don't want in the final commit message.