From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:29:15 -0800
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:37:17 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:48:35 -0800 > > > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address > > > > "bridge" should all-caps and in brackets, > > No, "bridge" should not be in []. Lots of people's patch-receiving scripts > assume that any text in [] is to be removed as the patch is committed. It > contains text which is only relevant to the particular email which carried > the patch. Stuff like "patch" and "4/5" and "linux-2.6.23", etc. I don't use scripts, I edit it by hand. And when I do ever use scripts I will make sure they accomodate "[$SUBSYSTEM]" format subject lines, you can be sure. And you can even make those scripts happy by doing: [Patch 1/7] [SUBSYSTEM]: Foo bar baz... And if you haven't noticed over the past few years, this is is the convention we've been using in the networking. I munge every one of your (and everyone else's) changelog entry headers this way. Without exception, every single one. So when you don't follow this convention, you make more typing and more work for me. The more patches I get from someone the more important it is for this convention to be followed. I find it very hard to believe that you haven't once looked at the hundreds of patches I've applied of your's and not noticed how I reformat everything. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
