Re: [PATCH] x86-64: fix HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor()

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan Beulich wrote:
>> See:
>>
>>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/67 
> 
> Thanks. Would certainly be helpful to put into Documentation/ if this is
> meant to be more than just a personal requirement of yours.

It's something we started with in the x86 tree (it came out of a long
discussion Ingo and I had about how to filter patches.)  It's not like
we can impose this workflow on others, but it has been *way* useful: a
patch with a *meaningful* "Impact:" line typically needs less than a
third of the human time than one without -- simply because it forces the
submitter to think about it.

Similarly "Fix foo" is not a complete description in any way.  Why was
foo broken in the first place?

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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