From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (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 BBDACE552 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721111418; cv=none; b=aXP8EcofnWRzjmO3wbfO5e38khx4UYvQIefVYtpCp/5MVl2ML+kr/Pc2mRp4mcZDNuchj7wFhWXC2DyjSNv0uaJFYQnT2SU/eYjG164jeT6Ra0cWORZiyljdxfmZe08o8wAHD6EbvjATA8DzG1BQ0dT+1z8WbGQWQecyhfcZt1g= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721111418; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Fmr1NnhSMdl8nSsMJs3YcMT+P8QG7/utPgjjA9jJIwk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=BvAp2NTniHeYXt2C1nDsntO6nT1tz+QvwVX5KZt8KQgb3YRr8M7M1IizaMqWmFHTywwFZJ98F0Z7uqqe49wfgyY5uvZQ72+VdxYjRFUipviwm8EkBGP//P0mSD7lZvM7ZcF1kDgMglilJ3fvAVrJXJBYtX1MAdzsFGhDY05ykwI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=udfW2jEs; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="udfW2jEs" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E0A0DC116B1; Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:30:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1721111418; bh=Fmr1NnhSMdl8nSsMJs3YcMT+P8QG7/utPgjjA9jJIwk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=udfW2jEs8yd4gUWqbDG5Q+VhIilwsp5Ft0PPAfj/g98Ta9QXe02BKarczVDL+FEpJ K5pi310W6OyMNU5JHRjuWclbTdCAVFhk0bSl8UkdYwIjfwpk0hN2hL4O5JeUC2GI+Y TkX0qfPjbeDuhJtOB6DUORm51UwexrsN+URAhngo= Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:30:15 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Dan Carpenter Cc: James Bottomley , Theodore Ts'o , Sasha Levin , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches Message-ID: <2024071623-obnoxious-agonize-ecc4@gregkh> References: <915ef4884d0cd347a1e0c87584346c764f7a11cf.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20240715180000.GC70013@mit.edu> <2d787d2e12b336f94afe5549cbfef4e1e20d9a7f.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <958a9ad7-6758-4f3f-807a-e44972b5ef95@suswa.mountain> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <958a9ad7-6758-4f3f-807a-e44972b5ef95@suswa.mountain> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 02:39:59PM -0500, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 03:24:42PM -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 most people have the ancient history so would just confuse > people and break scripts. Yes, as an example, it breaks mine which I use to find out how far back a commit should be backported to. For the above, it gives: Could not get sha1 for 3bc0a5f5c1. Skipping. as an output :( thanks, greg k-h