linux-kernel - Re: Trailers missing for some commits in linux-next 20260106

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Message-Id: <20260106171217.b97e62a450217c1e7d8e04a6@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:12:17 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Li Wang <liwang@...hat.com>
Cc: sfr@...b.auug.org.au, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trailers missing for some commits in linux-next 20260106

On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 09:01:22 +0800 Li Wang <liwang@...hat.com> wrote:

> Those patch trailers (Signed-off-by, Reviewed-by, Acked-by, etc.) are
> missing in the linux-next tree.
> Do you know what happened? What should I do to add back that?
> 
> commit 8bd5f5187 ("selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh: add waits
> with timeout helper")
> commit 378d74dfd ("selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb: drop mount
> size for hugetlbfs")
> commit 99f5e30c3 ("selftests/mm/write_to_hugetlbfs: parse -s as size_t")

These patches had "^----" in their changelogs, which git-quiltimport
incorrectly took to mean "end of changelog".  I turned those into "===="
so things should be OK in next -next.

I also added a rule to my nightly check-all-the-patches script to
prevent this from occurring again.