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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail•com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux•ie>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
	Haowen Bai <baihaowen@meizu•com>,
	Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc•com>,
	DRI <dri-devel@lists•freedesktop.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium•org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the drm tree
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 10:37:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220604103757.29d0b048@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF6AEGtYS1LYowjf-OiN-C1+4JFTWwOOpP__4iDLo-dFy0t0Tg@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Rob,

On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 07:58:14 -0700 Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail•com> wrote:
>
> will the truncated subject confuse the scripts that look for patches
> to backport to stable, ie. do we *really* have to rewrite history to
> fix this?

I don't know what scripts are being used and what they expect, but our
documentation says (Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst):

  If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using
  ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of
  the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary.  Do not split the tag across multiple
  lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to simplify
  parsing scripts.

But, that being said, doing the rewrite is up to the maintainer.  You
could just look at this as a learning experience and do better in the
future.

BTW, my script reacted to the missing closing quotes and parentheses,
which is more like to confuse any scripts that the actual truncation.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-04  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-03  5:16 linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the drm tree Stephen Rothwell
2022-06-03 14:58 ` Rob Clark
2022-06-04  0:37   ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2022-06-04  1:12     ` Rob Clark
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-09-11 22:54 Stephen Rothwell
2022-07-12 11:27 Stephen Rothwell
2019-10-27 20:23 Stephen Rothwell
2019-10-28  4:09 ` S, Shirish
2019-07-19  8:41 Stephen Rothwell
2019-03-04  8:09 Stephen Rothwell
2019-02-04  5:50 Stephen Rothwell

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