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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature: explicit comments for duplicate macro
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:42:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190828064231.GB4920@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828061100.27032-1-caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 02:11:00PM +0800, Cao jin wrote:

For the future:

> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature: explicit comments for duplicate macro

your subject needs to have a verb and start with a capital letter after
the subsystem/path prefix. In this case, something like this, for
example:

Subject: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature: Explain the macro duplication

> Help people to understand the author's intent of apparent duplication of
> BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(NCAPINTS != n), which is hard to detect by eyes.
> 
> CC: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> Tried my best to describe it accurately, in case of any inaccuracy, feel
> free to rephrase.

Yap, I fixed it up.

Thanks!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-28  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-28  6:11 [PATCH] x86/cpufeature: explicit comments for duplicate macro Cao jin
2019-08-28  6:42 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-08-28  8:16   ` Cao jin
2019-08-28  6:49 ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/cpufeature: Explain the macro duplication tip-bot2 for Cao Jin

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