On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 11:27 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:

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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Steve Glendinning
[off-list ref] wrote:

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+++ b/drivers/net/smsc911x.c
+ * History:
+ *   05/05/2005 bahadir.balban@arm.com
+ *     - Transition to linux coding style
+ *     - Platform driver and module interface

i thought we were against this sort of changelog stuff in files.  let
the scm take care of the changelog.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether the changelog in the file
should be kept or not and I won't argue. However, in this particular
instance there is no SCM log since the driver is not merged into the
mainline kernel. When/if it is merged, this will happen as a patch
without an SCM log.

while all true, the problem is that people who make updates in the
future often times will also update the in-file changelog

you could move the changelog out of the file and into the first commit message
-mike