Re: [GIT PULL] Modules updates for v5.16-rc1

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 11:08:02AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 3:33 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As requested by Jessica, I'm stepping in to help with modules
> > maintenance. This is my my first pull request, so if there are any
> > issues with it please let me know so I can fix things for the next
> > time around to make it even smoother for you.
> 
> Well, I want to see what I'm getting.
> 
> That's what "git request-pull" is all about - it does most of the
> formatting particularly if you have a tag with the explanations
> already like you seem to have.
> 
> That very much includes a diffstat and a shortlog, so that I see that
> "yes, what I got is actually what you intended for me to get" (and so
> that I can do a first quick scan of "this is what's coming" before I
> even do the pull - sometimes I use that to judge whether I should do
> the pull now,. or leave it for later when I have more time to go
> through something).

Odd, so I used 'git request-pull' and this page for guidence:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/maintainer/pull-requests.html

Sadly, no diffstat or shortlog was provided in:

git request-pull modules-linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/ modules-5.16-rc1

  Luis