Re: Formatting of stable commit messages

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:03:44PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.

Ok, now that I see this, I can't "unsee" it, so I fixed the issue in my
script.  Shouldn't happen again.

thanks,

greg k-h