From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28AB3988 for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 23:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [205.233.59.134]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8EED620216 for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 23:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <538A660E.40202@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 16:30:22 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Greg KH References: <20140528143246.GV15585@mwanda> <20140528163902.GA5099@sirena.org.uk> <1401295862.13546.109.camel@dhcp-9-2-203-236.watson.ibm.com> <20140528173553.GE5099@sirena.org.uk> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F328205B1@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <20140528183825.GA21477@sirena.org.uk> <5386FDAB.3010106@huawei.com> <20140529174122.GC7889@kroah.com> <20140530172858.GA16343@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20140530172858.GA16343@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Bottomley , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Mark Brown , Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 05/30/2014 10:28 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:41:22AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 05:28:11PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: >>> On 2014/5/29 5:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Mark Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 05:44:41PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> There's a world of difference between thanking people for review and a >>>>>>> detailed account of all the changes made in every single iteration of >>>>>>> the review. >>>>> >>>>>> This is already covered in Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Quoting >>>>>> lines 585-592 (see last sentence): >>>>> >>>>> Right, but Daniel is proposing lifting that above the --- and including >>>>> it in git. >>>> >>>> What you really want is: >>>> >>>> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/MESSAGE_ID_OF_PATCH >>>> >>>> It's way more useful than any of the v1-n writeups, which are most of >>>> the time just a completely waste of electrons. Even if written well, >>>> without the actual review context they are pretty pointless. >>>> >>> >>> A QA asked me about kernel development process. One of his question is, >>> he found some valuable information in the discussion of the patch often >>> won't be added to the changelog, so providing the commit how to find >>> the discussion? >> >> A research group has created a tool that takes a given git commit, finds >> the mailing list discussion for that patch. It was posted to lkml 6 or >> so months ago, you should point them at that tool if they want to do >> this. > > This one? https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/11/2 Thanks, I didn't find it. -- ~Randy