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

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Date:   Sat, 5 May 2018 09:37:56 -0700
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 12:02:47AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> So the way I use headers today is:
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: sha1hash "commit subject"

And that makes my life _so_ much easier.  The Fixes: tag is great
(thanks James!), I have scripts that I use to track if a fix was applied
to a stable tree to know if it needs to go into that branch as well.
Without that, the "# 4.9" marking just doesn't work, as it doesn't tell
me if that commit got backported to 4.4.y as well.  I used to do that
type of detection by hand, but automating it is so much better and I
miss less patches that way.

Anyway, just my two cents, let's try to keep this simple for both
maintainers, and stable developers, if at all possible.  I think what we
have now works well, but if people think the documentation should be
cleaned up, great, send patches :)

thanks,

greg k-h