linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.9 000/757] 5.9.2-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <0928177e-0c93-b06b-59a6-b7597659ff34@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:17:14 +0100
From:   Ronald Warsow <rwarsow@....de>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.9 000/757] 5.9.2-rc1 review

On 29.10.20 20:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:42:09PM +0100, Ronald Warsow wrote:
>> On 29.10.20 10:14, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:09:52PM +0100, Ronald Warsow wrote:
>>>> Hallo
>>>>
>>>> this rc1 runs here (pure Intel-box) without errors.
>>>> Thanks !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> An RPC (I'm thinking about since some month)
>>>> ======
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be better (and not so much add. work) to sort the
>>>> Pseudo-Shortlog towards subsystem/driver ?
>>>>
>>>> something like this:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> usb: gadget: f_ncm: allow using NCM in SuperSpeed Plus gadgets.
>>>> usb: cdns3: gadget: free interrupt after gadget has deleted
>>>>
>>>>      Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
>>>>      Peter Chen <peter.chen@....com>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Think of searching a bugfix in the shortlog.
>>>>
>>>> With the current layout I need to read/"visual grep" the whole log.
>>>>
>>>> With the new layout I'm able to jump to the "buggy" subsystem/driver and
>>>> only need to read that part of the log to get the info if the bug is
>>>> fixed or not yet
>>>
>>> Do you have an example script that generates such a thing?  If so, I'll
>>> be glad to look into it, but am not going to try to create it on my own,
>>> sorry.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>>
>>
>> first of all: in the above mail it should read "RFC"
>>
>>
>> Surely, who get the most benefit of it (the layout) does the most work.
>> Agreed, I will see what I can do -I'm unsure -
>>
>> Currently, I'm thinking that the data for your shortlog are coming from
>> a sort of an git query or so and it would just be an easy adjustment of
>> the query parameter.
>>
>> This seems not to be the case ?
>>
>> To get an idea if my knowledge is sufficing (I'm no developer):
>>
>> Where do you get the data from to generate your shortlog ?
>
> A "simple" git command:
> 	git log --abbrev=12 --format="%aN <%aE>%n    %s%n" ${VERSION}..HEAD > ${TMP_LOG}
>
> If you can come up with a command that replaces that, I'll be glad to
> try it out.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

I'll have a look into it.

--
regards

Ronald