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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:03:44 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Menzel <pmenzel+linux-stable@molgen.mpg.de>
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Subject: Re: Formatting of stable commit messages
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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?

It's my script that messes with that, sometimes, and not others.  I
haven't really taken the time to figure it out, it's here:
	https://github.com/gregkh/gregkh-linux/blob/master/stable/dave_split.pl
if you want to figure it out :)

Is this really causing a problem with anything?  It's just an "extra"
blank line, nothing is being attributed incorrectly.

thanks,

greg k-h