linux-kernel - Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:30:27 +0100
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 07:49:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:07:26AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 01:20 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > The subject/first line should include '[IA64]', as in the original
> > commit.  It looks like this has been automatically stripped.
> 
> Yeah, munging patches to and from quilt and git will cause that to
> happen at times, it's quite common :(

Indeed, and I've even changed my patch formats in haproxy to avoid brackets
due to this issue. The cause is that many patches are sent with a [PATCH]
prefix and that with Git, either you keep the subject line intact or you
remove everything that is between brackets. There's the -b option to only
remove remove tags looking like [PATCH], but my general experience with it
was not satisfying (I don't remind why). I have added some scripts to do
this at some points in the process but it's not 100% reliable as can be
seen here.

The "funny" thing here is that this comment lacking any IA64 tag annoyed
me a bit, and I was about to change its name then refrained from doing
so because I prefered not to keep the original message intact as I did
not notice the tag went off on my side :-/

Ben, I strongly suggest that you too switch your practise from "[IA64]"
to "IA64:" as can be seen on many kernel commits these days.

Thanks,
Willy

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