On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:11:10 -0500 Benjamin Romer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:19 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:13:39PM -0500, Benjamin Romer wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, here's the updated patch that uses the new definition and fixes up
> > > > > the other places that use it. I built and tested this on the ES7000/ONE
> > > > > and it works well. :)
> > > >
> > > > Cool.
> > > >
> > > > I hate to pick nits by why the double underscore on dest?
> > > >
> > >
> > > It was defined that way in the updated structure definition you sent in
> > > a previous mail, so I figured you wanted it that way. Here's another
> > > revision with the double underscores removed. :)
> > >
> > > -- Ben
> > >
> >
> > This patch looks good to me. You might want to provide some description
> > too for changelog.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vivek
>
> A simple description would look something like:
>
> - Updated 4-bit IO-APIC physical dest field to 8-bit dest field for
> xAPIC; fixes ES7000/ONE kexec timer hang
>
> Is there a changelog file in the kernel for kexec somewhere, or does
> this belong in the source file's comments somewhere? I can fix up the
> patch as soon as I know where the right spot for the description is. :)
We use a source code management system for changelogs. (git)
Patch comments (changelog info) go in the email at the top of the
patch. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches and
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
and http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html for more info.
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~Randy
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