linux-kernel - b4 send (was Re: [PATCH] riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issues between clang and binutils)

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:55:43 +0000
From:   Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
Cc:     nathan@...nel.org, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        aou@...s.berkeley.edu, Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com, trix@...hat.com,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: b4 send (was Re: [PATCH] riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issues between
 clang and binutils)

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 01:49:57PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:00:23 PDT (-0700), nathan@...nel.org wrote:

> > base-commit: eeac8ede17557680855031c6f305ece2378af326
> > change-id: 20230313-riscv-zicsr-zifencei-fiasco-2941caebe7dc
> 
> Is that a b4 thing?  Having change IDs with names is nice, it's way easier
> to remember what's what when sorting through backports.

It's `b4 send`, for anyone that's lurking on the list and hasn't seen it
before: https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/send.html

b4 is now a tool for contributing, not just maintaining, although I'm not
sure that the distro copies of it are recent enough to make use of those
features.


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