[libvirt] [PATCH 02/10] Check and handle error for virAsprintf() calls. Ignore the return in parallelsMakePoolName() since subsequent check validates name was allocated.

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Fri Jan 4 12:42:05 UTC 2013


On 01/03/2013 04:38 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 12:32 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> NB, you should restrict the first line of the commit message to
>> approx 70 characters. Then have a single blank line, followed
>> by the longer description. This ensures that you get sensible
>> subject lines :-)
> 
> Also, using the same subject line across multiple patches can cause
> grief to backporting efforts.  Inserting a prefix to say which portion
> of code is touched helps to both remove the ambiguity and make it easier
> to see at a glance why there are multiple patches.  I've modified the
> commit message to:
> 
> parallels: check and handle error for virAsprintf() calls
> 
> Ignore the return in parallelsMakePoolName() since subsequent check
> validates name was allocated.

I have learned my lesson about the longer lines. A mistake I hope to not
make a second time! That certainly was one of those git things I had
forgotten I knew, but since it was a few months since I had used git, it
wasn't front and center of my consciousness. I was trying to figure out
the 'norm' for those prefixes. I wasn't sure if they were automagically
placed there, but once I started through the send-email process I
realized those are self placed. Something perhaps for the contributing
patches web/wiki page for us nubes.

> 
>> ACK
> 
> and I've now pushed 1 and 2, and will continue reading through the
> series.  Congratulations on your first libvirt patch.
> 

Thanks!




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