On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:09:32AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 03:31:17PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > > On Fri, 04 May 2018, David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Sasha Levin via Ksummit-discuss wrote: > > > > > >> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # commit-id-of-(2) > > > > This has been documented since > > > > commit 8e9b9362266dd16255473c080d846b13e27247bf > > Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebast...@breakpoint.cc> > > Date: Sun Dec 6 12:24:31 2009 +0100 > > > > Doc/stable rules: add new cherry-pick logic > > > > in v2.6.33 so seems like there should have been enough time to fix the > > tools. > > The problem is that it's not being *used* that way. In fact, that > documentation is arguably out of date. When it does get used, it's > used to indicate which kernels the stable patch applies. You have to > go pretty far back before you find that suggested usage. Run: > > git log --grep sta...@kernel.org | grep -i cc: | grep stable | grep \# > > and see for yourself. The first couple of hits: > > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 3.11 > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 4.8+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 4.8+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 4.13+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 4.8+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 4.13 - together with 890da9cf0983 > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 4.13 > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # 4.13 > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # v4.8+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # v4.10+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # v4.10+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # v4.10+ > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # reverted commits were marked for stable > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # for the backport of the original commit > Cc: sta...@kernel.org # v4.8+ > > At this point, my suggestion would be to delete the text added by the > above-mentioned commit, and add a new syntax. We're much more willing > to support multiple headers, so something like this: > > Stable-prereq: DEADBEEF1234: subsystem: bork bork bork.... > > With multiple Stable-preeq: lines allowed, where the order is > significant, might be one way to do things.
Ugh, what? I don't understand what you are proposing here, what we have today is just fine, what is broken with it? thanks, greg k-h
