From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760853Ab2COI44 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:56:56 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:58883 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756888Ab2COI4u (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:56:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1331801806.2941.3.camel@dabdike> Subject: RE: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Corrected the constant in comparison to a hexadecimal. From: James Bottomley To: "Nanjappa, Sathisha (MCXS, Cupertino)" Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:56:46 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <1331665168-22561-1-git-send-email-sathisha.nanjappa@hp.com> <1331665168-22561-2-git-send-email-sathisha.nanjappa@hp.com> <1331714014.8688.3.camel@dabdike> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 23:36 +0000, Nanjappa, Sathisha (MCXS, Cupertino) wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:59 -0700, Sathisha Nanjappa wrote: > > > Bugzilla 42142 - mpt2sas: Number specified in wrong base > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42142 > > > > From: James Bottomley > > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:34 AM > > Do you have a better description ... like what is the user > > visible effect of correcting the constant? > > > > Does this look better: > > "This fix ensures that the IOP_LOGINFO_CODE_TASK_TERMINATED > messages do not clutter the sas_log_info messages." Much better, thanks. The whole point of a commit message is to explain what you're doing and why you're doing it. Just translating C to english isn't useful because everyone who looks a kernel patches can read C. James