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ajdlinux on Dec 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux 4.9 is out

Indeed - when you go and look at the individual commits, the commit messages tend to be a lot more complex :)

My worst commit-message-to-code-changed ratio is a commit in the kernel with a 1307 char/175 word commit message, and a single character change...

koolba on Dec 12, 2016 [–]

Arguably you could frame that as "best".

Link for the curious?

ajdlinux on Dec 12, 2016 | [–]

It was a fix in PCI error handling on powerpc for a reasonably rare situation where the PCI card doesn't successfully come back up after we reset the slot or the PCI controller...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/949e9b827eb4736d96d...

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