Felipe Contreras wrote: > It's all fun and games to write explanations for things, but it's not > that easy when you want those explanations to be actually true, and > corrent--you have to spend time to make sure of that. That's why it's useful for the patch submitter to write them, asking for help when necessary. As a bonus, it helps reviewers understand the effect of the patch. Bugs averted! [...] > Either way, if obvious fixes that are one-liners require an essay for > you, I give up. I guess it is fair to call a reasonable subject line plus a couple of sentences an essay. Yes, obvious fixes especially require that, since the bug caused by an obvious fix is one of the worst kinds. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html