Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup

[Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:01:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

 > BTW, can you use more consistent changeset messages?  I always
 > at least allude to what is being changed, for example I changed
 > all of your messages to be of the form:
 > 
 > 	[ATM]: Blah blah blah in HE driver.
 > 
 > This tells the reader that:
 > 
 > 1) It's an ATM change.
 > 2) It's to the HE driver.
 > 3) The change made was "Blah blah blah" :-)

I'd also add...
4) keep the first line a brief oneliner summary, as it
gets truncated when Linus generates the shortlog.
 
A number of people (self included) have adopted this
impromptu 'standard' for bk comments. Maybe it should
get documented in Documentation/BK-usage/bk-kernel-howto.txt

		Dave


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