From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Maintainers have to hand-edit patches (body of patches and changelog entries) all the time. There needs to be some kind of penalty put into place to keep developers from abusing maintainers.
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c379a2a..d1bec01 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ includes updates for subsystem X. Please apply." The maintainer will thank you if you write your patch description in a form which can be easily pulled into Linux's source code management -system, git, as a "commit log". See #15, below. +system, git, as a "commit log". See #15, below. If the maintainer has +to hand-edit your patch, you owe them the beverage of their choice the +next time you see them. If your description starts to get long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your patch. See #3, next. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
