Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code

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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 4:37 pm

Linus Torvalds wrote:

Also, please add a "lguest: " prefix to all future commits.

Otherwise, in the one-line summary, it is impossible to tell what 
portion of the kernel is being updated:

	Use "struct boot_params" in example launcher
	Loading bzImage directly.
	Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming.
	Pagetables to use normal kernel types
	Move register setup into i386_core.c
	Accept elf files that are valid but have sections that can not
		be mmap'ed for some reason.

git tools are all keyed to use that first line as a summary of the 
changeset, without giving any other context whatsoever.  See Linus's 
2.6.X-rcY announcements, for example.

This is also described in akpm's 
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt or my 
http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html

	Jeff


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[git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Rusty Russell, (Sun Oct 21, 10:37 pm)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Oct 22, 10:28 pm)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 23, 2:03 am)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 23, 12:10 pm)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Rusty Russell, (Thu Oct 25, 1:19 am)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 25, 6:41 pm)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Stephen Rothwell, (Thu Oct 25, 2:31 am)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Jeff Garzik, (Tue Oct 23, 4:37 pm)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Christian Borntraeger, (Tue Oct 23, 2:55 am)
Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code, Rusty Russell, (Tue Oct 23, 3:44 am)