From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [96.44.175.130]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E803C6AB8 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=96.44.175.130 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721071832; cv=none; b=ObEYcT/9rIMJbq/hgA714tIliDCV+bOXfVHpZyuW9VwCVVpV/xmI3TG9Yc/yviuTURbbn3pXrJW0O7dgm/y3HRBZZaUw8JZsN4s5eH9NXS54wcE4NKMip+SF01c9x+OjuqfeVdrkxIr07xlxn6RZVMBBwXlwgCfHW95qOqSX1dg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721071832; c=relaxed/simple; bh=xsoWPNLpopjDbhCiV5pYWD4cCJsCeW6awhQvtPzoW24=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=YOX5+wESRIYnkr7gR3AAwUUemNuccIX2q8kHbPkEpU2M41FZvBUZy90bpL7xp6OpCAzgHKQENItPtdzLMqJa1mBXeQ+9dkpczplm0IOGMoSQv6Jx9G/b3gsN9jz2mvbAPcQmg4W7NeZtKqwpChF24aOHqo0Sz0bw25K5fO78Aco= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=HansenPartnership.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=HansenPartnership.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=hansenpartnership.com header.i=@hansenpartnership.com header.b=PIcqTptt; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=hansenpartnership.com header.i=@hansenpartnership.com header.b=PIcqTptt; arc=none smtp.client-ip=96.44.175.130 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=HansenPartnership.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=HansenPartnership.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=hansenpartnership.com header.i=@hansenpartnership.com header.b="PIcqTptt"; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=hansenpartnership.com header.i=@hansenpartnership.com header.b="PIcqTptt" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=hansenpartnership.com; s=20151216; t=1721071830; bh=xsoWPNLpopjDbhCiV5pYWD4cCJsCeW6awhQvtPzoW24=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=PIcqTpttN+4t8AZACCM38kR9rKtObys2vxVMxbi1ujLcPNZzuOXe9JJMY9KkJVXez RbmydWFwduzPB8tTF7Gck26flO3V4UbPtE1t2AV2qwZUuMv0wvFM7v9rvSOca/p+cr JAjnCV6qdLkClBHrvw4IbptEtZtaVMZa+uG3WwrQ= Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D12812868E0; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:30:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavis, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0f3HEAiSq6JP; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:30:30 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=hansenpartnership.com; s=20151216; t=1721071830; bh=xsoWPNLpopjDbhCiV5pYWD4cCJsCeW6awhQvtPzoW24=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=PIcqTpttN+4t8AZACCM38kR9rKtObys2vxVMxbi1ujLcPNZzuOXe9JJMY9KkJVXez RbmydWFwduzPB8tTF7Gck26flO3V4UbPtE1t2AV2qwZUuMv0wvFM7v9rvSOca/p+cr JAjnCV6qdLkClBHrvw4IbptEtZtaVMZa+uG3WwrQ= Received: from lingrow.int.hansenpartnership.com (unknown [IPv6:2601:5c4:4302:c21::a774]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8AEC91286849; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:30:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1b2331cbe0bfdcc6343d673ad65a9571d2005c38.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches From: James Bottomley To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Dan Carpenter , Theodore Ts'o , Sasha Levin , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Greg KH Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:30:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20240715152837.75c3845f@rorschach.local.home> References: <915ef4884d0cd347a1e0c87584346c764f7a11cf.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20240715180000.GC70013@mit.edu> <2d787d2e12b336f94afe5549cbfef4e1e20d9a7f.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20240715152837.75c3845f@rorschach.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.42.4 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 15:28 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:24:42 -0400 > James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 14:06 -0500, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > [...] > > > The one question I have is for patches which pre-date git.  I was > > > told to leave the Fixes tag off in that case, but I think that's > > > out of date. It's more useful to say "Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 > > > ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")".  > > > > Actually, we have a history tree (based on Bitkeeper) that goes > > back before that: > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/ > > > > So I'd tag these as > > > > Fixes: 3bc0a5f5c1 (history "ext3: reservation info cleanup") > > > > I don't think that is necessary. If something is found to be broken > from before 2005, I don't believe it's worth the effort to search > another tree for the actual change that introduced the problem. When > you go that far, it becomes only an academic exercise. Some people are naturally curious, so it makes sense to have a format for them even if we don't require everyone to do it. James