Re: [GIT PATCH] PCI patches for 2.6.24-rc1

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 18:25:02 EST


From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:37:31 -0800 (PST)

> So let me one more say:
>
> - don't just say
>
> .. was cured by commit xyz
>
> - but add the one-liner description of the commit, something along the
> lines of
>
> .. was cured by commit xyz ("PCI: Add quirk for devices which
> disable MSI when INTX_DISABLE is set.")
>
> so that the commit messages are readable even outside git.

I agree, and I've been trying to get into the habit of
doing this even though I didn't this time.
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