Subject: Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:08:02 +1100

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 08:42 +1100, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > Michael Neuling (1):
> >       powerpc: Fix call to subpage_protection()
> 
> Well that's annoying... 
> 
> Looks like the bottom of my commit got chopped as the oops message has a
> "---" in it.  We lost the cc: [email-masked] :-(
> 
> Comparing the original post to the final commit:
>   http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-November/087141.html
> To the final:
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=1c2c25c78740b2796c7c06640784cb6732fa4907

LOL.

> It'd be nice if we had something like this in:

> powerpc: fix debug prints to avoid ---
> 
> Many commit tools assume anything below a line starting with --- is a
> comment. Since the following two prints are often used as debug
> outputs and hence in checkin comments avoid using --- in these
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[email-masked]>
> ---
> Let the bike shedding begin!

I vote for:

 -> Exception: 401 (Instruction Access) at 00000000f7937794

Because exceptions are like an arrow!