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

From: Nanjappa, Sathisha (MCXS, Cupertino)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2012 - 13:55:14 EST


> From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-kernel-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Bottomley
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:57 AM
>
> 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.
>

Thanks for clarifying. I'll keep that in mind during my future submittal requests.

FYI, I've received ack's from:

Acked-by: "Nandigama, Nagalakshmi" <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: "Chris Dunlop" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Satish.

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