From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jirislaby@gmail.com
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: ath5k text
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:05:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080818.000513.224752343.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A91E12.1060901@gmail.com>
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:00:34 +0200
> On 08/18/2008 12:12 AM, David Miller wrote:
> > Their commit messages reference SHA IDs but do not give a commit
> > header line text reference as well.
> >
> > ath5k: Don't fiddle with MSI on suspend/resume.
>
> John, this is it (even if I don't understand the purpose):
The purpose is that when patches are backported or moved to
other GIT trees, the SHA ID is going to be different.
So when you reference just the SHA ID it is not enough
infomration to universally find the commit you are referring
to.
Do you understand "the purpose" now? :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-18 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-17 18:56 pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-17 John W. Linville
2008-08-17 22:12 ` David Miller
2008-08-18 0:23 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-18 7:00 ` ath5k text [Was: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-17] Jiri Slaby
2008-08-18 7:05 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-08-18 15:15 ` pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-18 John W. Linville
2008-08-19 4:16 ` David Miller
2008-08-19 4:27 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-19 4:29 ` David Miller
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