Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 12:03:47 EST


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:57:16PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:28:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > oh, and please give the patches useful subjects that descript the
> > patch, e.g. this one should be just:
> >
> >
> > [PATCH 0/17] perfmon2: introduction
> >
> > (yes, it's convention to number the introduction 0 and the actual patches
> > 1 to n)
>
> Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:
>
> [PATCH 00/17]
> [PATCH 01/17]
> ...
> [PATCH 17/17]

To be honest I utterly hate that convention, and the double-padded
version [PATCH 001/17] some people use is even worse.

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