linux-kernel - Re: Kernel patch commit message and content do differ

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:42:42 -0700
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
To:     Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel patch commit message and content do differ

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 10:20:25PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> May I ask you to clarify why
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/diff/queue-5.2/net-ipv4-fib_trie-avoid-cryptic-ternary-expressions.patch?id=e1b76013997246a0d14b7443acbb393577d2a1e8
> speaks about a ternary operator, whereas the diff shows a changed
> #define?

This is a good question, apparently the content of the queued patch is:

commit 4df607cc6fe8e46b258ff2a53d0a60ca3008ffc7
Author: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 17 10:28:29 2019 -0700

    kbuild: Remove unnecessary -Wno-unused-value


however the commit message is from:

commit 25cec756891e8733433efea63b2254ddc93aa5cc
Author: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Date:   Tue Jun 18 14:14:40 2019 -0700

    net/ipv4: fib_trie: Avoid cryptic ternary expressions


Other than that the stable port also is missing a Signed-off-by tag
from Nathan.

Looks like the patch didn't actually make it into -stable yet? If that
is correct we should be in time to fix it up before it becomes part of
the git history.