From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752736AbYHRHFa (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751156AbYHRHFP (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:05:15 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52856 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751243AbYHRHFO (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:05:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080818.000513.224752343.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 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <48A91E12.1060901@gmail.com> References: <20080817185605.GC30679@tuxdriver.com> <20080817.151251.204370966.davem@davemloft.net> <48A91E12.1060901@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jiri Slaby 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? :-)