Commit messages (was: [PATCH v11] drm/amdgpu: add drm buddy support to amdgpu)

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Wed Mar 23 15:19:17 UTC 2022


Am 23.03.22 um 15:00 schrieb Daniel Stone:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 08:19, Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>> Am 23.03.22 um 09:10 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>>> Sorry, I disagree. The motivation needs to be part of the commit
>>> message. For example see recent discussion on the LWN article
>>> *Donenfeld: Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and
>>> 5.18* [1].
>>>
>>> How much the commit message should be extended, I do not know, but the
>>> current state is insufficient (too terse).
>> Well the key point is it's not about you to judge that.
>>
>> If you want to complain about the commit message then come to me with
>> that and don't request information which isn't supposed to be publicly
>> available.
>>
>> So to make it clear: The information is intentionally hold back and not
>> made public.
> In that case, the code isn't suitable to be merged into upstream
> trees; it can be resubmitted when it can be explained.

Well what Paul is requesting here are business information, not 
technical information.

In other words we perfectly explained why it is technically necessary 
already which is sufficient.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> Cheers,
> Daniel



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