Re: [PATCH] blackfin/sram: use 'unsigned long' for irqflags

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Wed Aug 06 2008 - 08:23:37 EST


> *shrug* ... i dont see other patches with things like:
> The patch was generated with git.
> The patch was generated with eclipse.
> The patch was generated with emacs.
> etc...
>
> we dont generally list all of the tools in the log message that was
> used in *creating* a patch since it doesnt really add any value when
> looking back historically at changes.

But with git, emacs, eclipse etc, the person is still making the change by
hand. The comment is more like "this patch was generated with perl" or
"this patch was generated with sed", indicating that the change is
uniform enough to be automated. This does have some interest,
although perhaps not for everyone.

julia
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