[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add penalty for forcing a maintainer toedit a patch

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Maintainers have to hand-edit patches (body of patches and changelog
entries) all the time.  There needs to be some kind of penalty put into
place to keep developers from abusing maintainers.

Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index c379a2a..d1bec01 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ includes updates for subsystem X.  Please apply."
 
 The maintainer will thank you if you write your patch description in a
 form which can be easily pulled into Linux's source code management
-system, git, as a "commit log".  See #15, below.
+system, git, as a "commit log".  See #15, below.  If the maintainer has
+to hand-edit your patch, you owe them the beverage of their choice the
+next time you see them.
 
 If your description starts to get long, that's a sign that you probably
 need to split up your patch.  See #3, next.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/