Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:25:15 -0500 | From | Jason Cooper <> | Subject | Re: [ARM] Fix kernel compile error: drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c. |
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On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 12:46:25PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 01:37:46PM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > Last time I checked (few days ago, 'git grep -w Fixes:') it > > wasn't, at least not within the kernel source tree and its > > Documentation hierarchy. Today's master still does not have it. > > > > But a quick search in recent LAKML messages reveals that it's > > been in use by e.g. Olof Johansson, Jason Cooper, Rusty Russell, > > Dan Carpenter, Russell King, Mark Brown, Stephen Warren, Paul > > Walmsley, and I'm not making this up but am just referring to > > what repeatedly was requested in the past. The form used there > > was "Fixes: <hash> (<oneline>)" though. A doc update may be due > > to have a canonical format. > > It was discussed at kernel summit, and I believe the resulting format > was only published in one of the kernel summit mailing lists. The > outcome of it as I understand was that the format is: > > Fixes: <hash> ("<one line summary>")
fwiw, Linus also recommended setting core.abbrev = 12.
thx,
Jason.
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