Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary"to SubmittingPatches

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Thu Apr 16 2009 - 16:26:21 EST


On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> Unfortunately many patch submissions are arriving with painfully poor
> patch descriptions. As a result of the discussion on LKML:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/296
>
> explain how to submit a better patch description, in the (perhaps
> vain) hope that maintainers won't end up having to rewrite the git
> commit logs as often as they do today.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>

Read through your diff. Looks good to me - nice additions.

Feel free to add
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
or
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
if you like...

Don't really know what's most appropriate here, but I like the patch.


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