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 BD717132492 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:24:44 +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=1721071486; cv=none; b=ayEBTUyWwpBmaXX3Vep1kKLqDRSOyEpo1ICJltjkc8FnSVRfFGuUKBMxBnMNSZ2cueFju3uJgrroPA6zkadsAZbMgM8tpdW6T41SryT3xjcP/lbPZiwMDtezP9T1qsS3YdY1ONsJDt2n4hMlIfXKcLrxa4gnzeF5BPiyyPSOqMs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721071486; c=relaxed/simple; bh=8bDBYZTjubmcRbgBTbnICnzmqEI6G865S2SgQgiE1tk=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=MFy1Op9qvdi01nuVYUxrPQFV2ZbZ2nFeyWKBVxEKycJQgi7OkJqvVXsac2oSLRmxJUidRPxlIi3ewYGOaA5A5fKiQxVAvSmKZmTZ1rBLqAkzGsc12ofwcjrAjsHcWzyXg4WQx405iN+s+Y1liTzkFOV9LEzchkntd86mt/HN2Ic= 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=niBup8zv; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=hansenpartnership.com header.i=@hansenpartnership.com header.b=P/rtd/C2; 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="niBup8zv"; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=hansenpartnership.com header.i=@hansenpartnership.com header.b="P/rtd/C2" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=hansenpartnership.com; s=20151216; t=1721071484; bh=8bDBYZTjubmcRbgBTbnICnzmqEI6G865S2SgQgiE1tk=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=niBup8zvIuF+VaqvWnHogZMgYjSuhbClFNUXQF0d2xoPNLZw4gRvrPQRHpLn8DNZ1 vGnav/vZfnLJitxPpmtWvO+d4eH/djM3J2mJd68DqLEq2EY7zsHDO0p7IgGHB4KPDz cFNxOhonjvgRpmQvcmE3n6R57nLIuiWP6pCDKPho= Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E871286849; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:24:44 -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 ZBAoVPrF0iln; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:24:43 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=hansenpartnership.com; s=20151216; t=1721071483; bh=8bDBYZTjubmcRbgBTbnICnzmqEI6G865S2SgQgiE1tk=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=P/rtd/C2CLRLsuVd1dxtSSy0ljIk4rrzdQe+sIZrdeqXL90vM0q1z6IP5qv0odppo ypXs5DtptryHS7NUVkZgYiyv6FKNmf9HFVuuuw0xAzKcpjolWved8U68/0ylN1pbtY LrzXHpeeZmS+xPrpnwFZ2rj67ZrwiUhIiDHk+O44= 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 4B2A612867BE; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:24:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <2d787d2e12b336f94afe5549cbfef4e1e20d9a7f.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches From: James Bottomley To: Dan Carpenter , Theodore Ts'o Cc: Sasha Levin , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Greg KH Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:24:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <915ef4884d0cd347a1e0c87584346c764f7a11cf.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20240715180000.GC70013@mit.edu> 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 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") Regards, James