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From: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com, Ariel.Elior@cavium.com,
	everest-linux-l2@cavium.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] qed: Replace memset with eth_zero_addr
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 23:10:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170116174014.GB10618@mystictot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170116.114606.1692928906878877115.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:46:06AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:54:35 +0530
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:38:30PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> >> 
> >> Please do not ever submit two patches which have the same exact commit
> >> header line, as these two patches do.
> >> 
> >> When someone looks into the shortlog of GIT history all they will see
> >> is "qed: Replace memset with eth_zero_addr" twice.
> >> 
> >> This gives the reader no idea what might be different between those
> >> two changes.
> >> 
> >> Therefore you must give unique a commit header text for each change,
> >> which communicates sufficiently what is different in each change.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for correcting me. I'll take care of this thing.
> > 
> > I'm resending these two patches as 
> > 	1). qed: Replace memset with eth_zero_addr
> > 	2). qed: Use eth_zero_addr
> > 	
> > I hope it resolves same commit header line conflict.
> 
> You aren't understanding the point.
> 
> Those two lines still say exactly the same thing.
> 
> What is different about these two changes?  The answer to that question
> must propagate into those lines of text.

I got your point now. As pointed by you and Mintz,  I'll resend it
as a single patch. 

I sincerely appreciate your efforts for making things clearer and
correcting me.

Thanks a lot,
Shyam

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-16 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-16  3:44 [PATCH 1/2] qed: Replace memset with eth_zero_addr Shyam Saini
2017-01-16  3:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Shyam Saini
2017-01-16  4:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] " David Miller
2017-01-16  9:24   ` Shyam Saini
2017-01-16 16:46     ` David Miller
2017-01-16 17:05       ` Mintz, Yuval
2017-01-16 17:12         ` David Miller
2017-01-16 17:40       ` Shyam Saini [this message]

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