On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 02:46:05PM -0500, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > Hi, > it is not simply a matter of adding "fix" to the title. > > You must explain what and why vs. how. > > Please see: > https://cbea.ms/git-commit/#why-not-how > > for some guidelines on writing a good commit message. > If you can't understand why a buffer overflow is bad then I honestly don't know what to say... When I was a newbie, I encountered a driver which was written in terrible style. And I thought why do people allow it??? This is garbage and it's messing up the Linux kernel with its bad style. But after I got older, I realized that he was the only person with that hardware and the only person who cared about it. If I started fighting with him about style then he would leave. He was a quirky guy with bad taste but he was still making useful contributions so it was better to tolerate him. These days I'm the old quirky guy. If you want to fight with me about commit messages, that's fine. I can easily just add you to my list of subsystems which only receive bug reports instead of patches. (I think only BPF is on the list currently because it's annoying to track the bpf vs bpf-next tree). Feel free to re-write this patch however you want and give me Reported-by credit. regards, dan carpenter
