linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

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Date:   Fri, 04 May 2018 15:31:17 +0300
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "ksummit-discuss\@lists.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "w\@1wt.eu" <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

On Fri, 04 May 2018, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> Sasha Levin via Ksummit-discuss wrote:
>
>> 	Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # commit-id-of-(2)
>
> Can you please not do this?  This screws up email address parsing in some
> tools.

This has been documented since

commit 8e9b9362266dd16255473c080d846b13e27247bf
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
Date:   Sun Dec 6 12:24:31 2009 +0100

    Doc/stable rules: add new cherry-pick logic

in v2.6.33 so seems like there should have been enough time to fix the
tools.


BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center