Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.8-4 tag

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Aug 29 2016 - 18:10:01 EST


On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 12:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is my first signed-tag and use of 2fa so I hope I got it all right...
> > I tried to use the same format Michael uses for the tag etc...
>
> The signature all looks fine, but when the contents of the tag are
> just the same git information that you can get from git itself, it's
> not useful as a merge message. So I prefer the actual high-level "what
> changed" message instead:
>
> >
> > We have some misc fixes for powerpc 4.8. Some trivial bits and some
> > regressions, and a trivial cleanup or two that I saw no point in letting
> > rot in patchwork.
>
> .. although optimally with a *bit* more detail.
>
> Anyway, pulled.

Ok. Will fix that next time.

Cheers,
Ben.