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

From: Robert Richter
Date: Thu Feb 25 2021 - 06:42:04 EST


On 15.02.21 15:19:49, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxx>