Re: [PATCH] Documentation/submitting-patches: Extend commit message layout description

[Jonathan Corbet]

Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/submitting-patches: Extend commit message layout description
>
> Add more blurb about the level of detail that should be contained in a
> patch's commit message. Extend and make more explicit what text should
> be added under the --- line. Extend examples and split into more easily
> palatable paragraphs.
>
> This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
> patchset by Thomas Gleixner:
>
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> and incorporates follow-on comments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> /me sends the next generic topic blurb.
>
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 89 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Applied, with one tweak:

> +If there are four patches in a patch series the individual patches may
> +be numbered like this: 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4. This assures that developers
> +understand the order in which the patches should be applied and that
> +they have reviewed or applied all of the patches in the patch series.
>  
>  A couple of example Subjects::
>  
>      Subject: [PATCH 2/5] ext2: improve scalability of bitmap searching
>      Subject: [PATCH v2 01/27] x86: fix eflags tracking
> +    Subject: [PATCH v2] sub/sys: Condensed patch summary
> +    Subject: [PATCH v2 M/N] sub/sys: Condensed patch summary

It's no longer "a couple" so I made this "Here are some good example
Subjects".

Thanks,

jon