Upon prodding from Andrew Morton, and after discussing it with a few people, I have decided to change the way we format the git headline (the first line of the commit text) for powerpc-related patches. Instead of starting the headline with "[POWERPC]" or "[POWERPC]: subsystem", we're now going to use "powerpc:" or "powerpc/subsystem:". This is in line with what many other subsystems are doing these days and it conforms with the principle that square brackets in patch subjects are used to delimit information which shouldn't go into the permanent record (e.g., [1/7] or [RESEND]).
I'm making this change from now on for commits that are queued up for 2.6.27. For 2.6.26 I'm going to stick with the old convention. So if people are sending patches for 2.6.27, it would be helpful if you put "powerpc:" or "powerpc/subsystem:" at the start of the patch subject. People who are putting commits destined for 2.6.27 or later into a git tree for me to pull need to make sure they format the commits this way. (It's more important to get it right in the git tree case because I can edit patches but not git commits.) Paul. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
