Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.8-4 tag

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Aug 29 2016 - 15:15:18 EST


On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is my first signed-tag and use of 2fa so I hope I got it all right...
> I tried to use the same format Michael uses for the tag etc...

The signature all looks fine, but when the contents of the tag are
just the same git information that you can get from git itself, it's
not useful as a merge message. So I prefer the actual high-level "what
changed" message instead:

> We have some misc fixes for powerpc 4.8. Some trivial bits and some
> regressions, and a trivial cleanup or two that I saw no point in letting
> rot in patchwork.

.. although optimally with a *bit* more detail.

Anyway, pulled.

Linus