Commit 0af52703 authored by Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar Geert Uytterhoeven Committed by Jiri Kosina

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references

Request inclusion of oneline summaries when referring to other commits
Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent ed7afeae
......@@ -109,6 +109,16 @@ probably didn't even receive earlier versions of the patch.
If the patch fixes a logged bug entry, refer to that bug entry by
number and URL.
If you want to refer to a specific commit, don't just refer to the
SHA-1 ID of the commit. Please also include the oneline summary of
the commit, to make it easier for reviewers to know what it is about.
Example:
Commit e21d2170f36602ae2708 ("video: remove unnecessary
platform_set_drvdata()") removed the unnecessary
platform_set_drvdata(), but left the variable "dev" unused,
delete it.
3) Separate your changes.
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