Re: [PATCH v18 for v4.1-rc2 1/3] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Will try moving those parts under a "---" in the commit
>> message, and hope it does what I intend.
>
> Yeah, that should do it for anybody who then uses "git am" to apply
> the patches you send out. It's kind of hacky, and I've always worried
> a bit that somebody uses "^---$' for real in a commit message and
> things get lost, but it is *such* a useful way to add notes to emails
> that aren't fit for actually committing, that the risk has never
> outweighed the benefits.

There's also 'git format-patch --notes', which is less hacky but more
complicated.

--Andy

>
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