On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:54:17 +0200 Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The following changes since commit > f9b51477fe540fb4c65a05027fdd6f2ecce4db3b: > > [media] DVB: return meaningful error codes in dvb_frontend (2011-05-09 05:47:20 +0200) > > are available in the git repository at: > git://linuxtv.org/jfrancois/gspca.git for_v2.6.40 > [...] Hi Jean-Francois, sometimes it is useful to add also a "why" section to commit messages so others can follow your thoughts, and even learn from them. I have this very simple scheme: a summary of the "what" goes into the short commit message and the "why" and "how" go into the long commit message when they are not immediately trivial from the code; for instance the "why" of the USB trace changes in this series wasn't trivial to me. Thanks, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
