Re: [PATCH 5.9 000/757] 5.9.2-rc1 review

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Oct 29 2020 - 05:13:24 EST


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:09:52PM +0100, Ronald Warsow wrote:
> Hallo
>
> this rc1 runs here (pure Intel-box) without errors.
> Thanks !
>
>
> An RPC (I'm thinking about since some month)
> ======
>
> Wouldn't it be better (and not so much add. work) to sort the
> Pseudo-Shortlog towards subsystem/driver ?
>
> something like this:
>
> ...
> usb: gadget: f_ncm: allow using NCM in SuperSpeed Plus gadgets.
> usb: cdns3: gadget: free interrupt after gadget has deleted
>
> Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx>
> ...
>
>
> Think of searching a bugfix in the shortlog.
>
> With the current layout I need to read/"visual grep" the whole log.
>
> With the new layout I'm able to jump to the "buggy" subsystem/driver and
> only need to read that part of the log to get the info if the bug is
> fixed or not yet

Do you have an example script that generates such a thing? If so, I'll
be glad to look into it, but am not going to try to create it on my own,
sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h