linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 092/190] drm/nouveau: Dont WARN

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Date:   Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:48:57 -0400
From:   Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        nouveau <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "# 3.9+" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 092/190] drm/nouveau: Dont WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:46 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> >Hi Greg,
> >
> >This feels like it's missing a From: line.
> >
> >commit b513a18cf1d705bd04efd91c417e79e4938be093
> >Author: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> >Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:03:50 2019 -0500
> >
> >    drm/nouveau: Don't WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures
> >
> >Is this an artifact of your notification-of-patches process and I
> >never noticed before, or was the patch ingested incorrectly?
>
> It was always like this for patches that came through me. Greg's script
> generates an explicit "From:" line in the patch, but I never saw the
> value in that since git does the right thing by looking at the "From:"
> line in the mail header.

That's right -- the email's From header gets used in the case of no
explicit From in the email body. But Greg is sending the emails From:
Greg, so if I were to ingest that email, I would end up with a patch
From: Greg, not From: Lyude as it ought to be.

Cheers,

  -ilia