From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:39:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <958a9ad7-6758-4f3f-807a-e44972b5ef95@suswa.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d787d2e12b336f94afe5549cbfef4e1e20d9a7f.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
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.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-15 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-14 12:31 Sasha Levin
2024-07-14 13:35 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-14 15:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2024-07-14 16:34 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-14 18:38 ` Sasha Levin
2024-07-14 19:20 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-14 20:18 ` Sasha Levin
2024-07-15 18:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-07-15 18:07 ` Mark Brown
2024-07-15 19:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-15 19:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-07-15 19:24 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-15 19:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-07-15 19:30 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-15 19:39 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2024-07-16 6:30 ` Greg KH
2024-07-15 20:25 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2024-07-15 20:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2024-07-16 6:28 ` Greg KH
2024-07-16 12:20 ` Takashi Iwai
2024-07-17 22:05 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-18 7:34 ` Takashi Iwai
2024-07-18 14:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-18 14:56 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-18 16:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-19 0:49 ` NeilBrown
2024-07-19 1:35 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-19 11:55 ` Vegard Nossum
2024-07-23 14:14 ` Jiri Kosina
2024-07-16 14:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-07-16 19:38 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-15 6:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2024-07-14 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-14 18:47 ` Sasha Levin
2024-07-14 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-14 20:27 ` Sasha Levin
2024-07-14 23:05 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-14 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-15 8:02 ` Greg KH
2024-07-15 8:53 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2024-07-15 12:48 ` Mimi Zohar
2024-07-15 12:52 ` Mimi Zohar
2024-07-15 14:34 ` Alexandre Belloni
2024-07-15 14:40 ` Greg KH
2024-07-15 15:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2024-07-15 15:07 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-15 15:19 ` Sasha Levin
2024-07-15 15:31 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-15 15:42 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-15 15:10 ` Greg KH
2024-07-15 17:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2024-07-15 18:04 ` Mark Brown
2024-07-15 20:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2024-07-16 6:25 ` Greg KH
2024-07-16 15:00 ` Mark Brown
2024-07-14 23:29 ` NeilBrown
2024-07-14 23:29 ` Steven Rostedt
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