linux-kernel - Re: Tagging of -stable patches

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Message-ID: <20121121221341.GX13292@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:13:41 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tagging of -stable patches

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
>   I have a question regarding tagging of patches targetted in -stable
> kernels. We have this 'CC: stable@...r.kernel.org # something' tag. Now
> inconvenient thing is that when I create a patch and have such tag in it,
> then git-send-email will mangle the address because of the #. Now even if
> git-send-email started to ignore the part after #, we don't really want
> stable@...r.kernel.org to get the patch since it is eligible for -stable
> only after it is merged upstream. So the CC form of the tag seems to be
> kind of inconvenient. Won't it be better to have some different tag?
 
I don't have any particular attachment to this odd format, but I
would like to see *some* format properly standardised.  I want to be
able to script:

for each new commit cc'd to stable:
    if no version restriction is specified:
        add to patch queue(s) pending check for suitability
    elif version restriction can be parsed:
        add to patch queue(s) or drop based on version comparison
    else:
        show version restriction and ask whether/where to add it

...with as few questions asked as possible.  As yet, though, I haven't
bothered trying to parse the variety of different ways people write
version restrictions, but the script does require them to be preceded
by a '#'.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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