From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] tc35815: Fix an usage of streaming DMA API. Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:59:51 -0400 Message-ID: <45F7C797.4030509@garzik.org> References: <20070303.235459.25478204.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <20070314.010220.65192616.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <20070313120418.554a3a43@freekitty> <20070314.100557.33857330.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Atsushi Nemoto Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38972 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161006AbXCNJ76 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:59:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070314.100557.33857330.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:04:18 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>> + * 1.35 Fix an usage of streaming DMA API. >>> */ >> Please don't use comments as changelog anymore. It gets out of date. >> The use of change control systems has made this practice obsolete. > > OK, Jeff, should I send a revised patch dropping this line? Nah, there's no need to reject the patch on that basis. You should send an additional patch, on top of all others you sent recently, that completely removes the entire changelog from the driver source code :) Jeff