From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Paul Menzel <pmenzel+linux-stable@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Formatting of stable commit messages
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180427094031.GA3061@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9b2f7db-fddf-d6bb-3868-2cb41c00817a@molgen.mpg.de>
Hello,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:34:58AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Greg,
>
>
> Looking at the change-log of the stable series, there are two lines between
> the commit messages summary [1] and the first line of the commit message
> body.
>
> > commit 4c8e0270dc7afb10d4e06be4adfd177db5cb3cb8
> > Author: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@zte.com.cn>
> > Date: Wed Feb 7 11:41:46 2018 -0800
> >
> > bcache: fix for data collapse after re-attaching an attached device
> > [ Upstream commit 73ac105be390c1de42a2f21643c9778a5e002930 ]
>
> I assume you scripts generate that. Could they be changed to just add one
> blank line?
Just FWIW the ones appearing in the changelog seem to only affect Sasha's
autosel commits, which have a From line in the body. It might be that the
automatic removal of this From leaves only the previous and next empty
lines, resulting in what you observe.
Just my two cents,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-27 9:34 Formatting of stable commit messages Paul Menzel
2018-04-27 9:40 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2018-04-27 10:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-05-01 21:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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