On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:29:15 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:37:17 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:48:35 -0800 > > > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address > > > > "bridge" should all-caps and in brackets, > > No, "bridge" should not be in []. Lots of people's patch-receiving scripts > assume that any text in [] is to be removed as the patch is committed. It > contains text which is only relevant to the particular email which carried > the patch. Stuff like "patch" and "4/5" and "linux-2.6.23", etc. > > > "assign random address" > > should be capitalized like a proper english sentence with a period at > > the end. > > Actually I usually remove the caps and the waste-of-space period, but > that's much less important than the brackets abuse. The bracket convention > is quite useful and I've often wondered why I need to edit the patch title > when I merge up patches from net developers ;) > I try to follow the title convention that Jeff was promoting. It works well because he is dealing with many different drivers. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
