RE: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Corrected the constant in comparison to ahexadecimal.

[James Bottomley]

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 23:36 +0000, Nanjappa, Sathisha (MCXS, Cupertino)
wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:59 -0700, Sathisha Nanjappa wrote:
> > > Bugzilla 42142 - mpt2sas: Number specified in wrong base
> > >     https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42142
> > 
> > From: James Bottomley
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:34 AM
> > Do you have a better description ... like what is the user
> > visible effect of correcting the constant?
> >
> 
> Does this look better:
> 
> "This fix ensures that the IOP_LOGINFO_CODE_TASK_TERMINATED
> messages do not clutter the sas_log_info messages."

Much better, thanks.  The whole point of a commit message is to explain
what you're doing and why you're doing it.  Just translating C to
english isn't useful because everyone who looks a kernel patches can
read C.

James


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