Hi Sam,
For future patches can you please incldue a small changelog within each patch.
Something like
v2:
- Drop redundant newlines (Lucas)
This serves several purposes:
- It explains what was changed since last version
- It allow the reader to focus on changed parts
- It attributes who requested a specific change
- It gives a good idea of the history of a patch
In the DRM sub-subsystem the idea is that if it is written it should be visible in git too. So include the changelog part in the normal commit-message.
To be honest.. I forgot the change log thing this time - sorry. So the rule is to have the change log in the normal commit message? Funny - Lucas told me something different:
"Please move those changelogs below the 3 dashes, so they don't end up in the commit message. They don't really add any value to the persistent kernel history." https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/13/107