linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the rdma-fixes tree

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:39:06 +0200
From:   Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the rdma-fixes tree

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:15 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:50:33AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 18:41 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > In commit
> > >
> > >   612e0486ad08 ("iw_cxgb4: fix ECN check on the passive accept")
> > >
> > > Fixes tag
> > >
> > >   Fixes: 92e7ae7172 ("iw_cxgb4: Choose appropriate hw mtu index and
> > > ISS for iWARP connections")
> > >
> > > has these problem(s):
> > >
> > >   - SHA1 should be at least 12 digits long
> > >     Can be fixed by setting core.abbrev to 12 (or more) or (for git
> > > v2.11
> > >     or later) just making sure it is not set (or set to "auto").
> >
> > I'll leave it to Potnuri to fix his stuff.  As for the rdma tree, the 10
> > digit hash is still unique as of today, so I won't rebase the official
> > branch to fix this.  However, I'll see about adding a check for this in
> > my workflow.  Thanks.
>
> I thought I saw that checkpatch was checking this now?
>
> commit a8dd86bf746256fbf68f82bc13356244c5ad8efa
> Author: Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
> Date:   Wed Sep 25 16:46:38 2019 -0700
>
>     checkpatch.pl: warn on invalid commit id
>
> Maybe that check should also check that enough hash is provided and
> other details like the correct subject line?
>
> I also use a check that builds the fixes line from the commit id and
> requires it to be the same as the patch provided. This catches all
> sorts of wrong fixes lines, and sometimes git even recommends 13 chars
> :\
>
> Jason

Hi,

actually I just call git_commit_info() which checks for validness.
I could also check that the hash is at least 12 digits, would be very easy.

Joe?

-- 
Matteo Croce
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