Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

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Hi all,

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:42:09 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > > Introduced by commit 9a55fdbe941e ("x86, asmlinkage, paravirt: Add
> > > > __visible/asmlinkage to xen paravirt ops").  The 2 definitions used to be
> > > > identical ... maybe there should be only one.
> > > 
> > > Andi, please send a fix for this build warning, against 
> > > tip:x86/asmlinkage.
> > 
> > I resent the patch. Thanks for the headsup.
> 
> I suspect hpa missed it because the patch was opaque and 
> non-descriptive: the title talks about a 'warning' that is 
> supposedly fixed but the changelog does not explain what 
> warning it is and why the change matters.
> 
> Please use the customary changelog style we use in the 
> kernel:
> 
>   " Current code does (A), this has a problem when (B).
>     We can improve this doing (C), because (D)."
> 
> I've seen this pattern of deficient changelogs a dozen 
> times in your patches this year alone ...

Ping?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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