On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:01 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:46:27AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > >> > Hi Greg, > >> > > >> > This feels like it's missing a From: line. > >> > > >> > commit b513a18cf1d705bd04efd91c417e79e4938be093 > >> > Author: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > Date: Mon Jan 28 16:03:50 2019 -0500 > >> > > >> > drm/nouveau: Don't WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures > >> > > >> > Is this an artifact of your notification-of-patches process and I > >> > never noticed before, or was the patch ingested incorrectly? > >> > >> It was always like this for patches that came through me. Greg's script > >> generates an explicit "From:" line in the patch, but I never saw the > >> value in that since git does the right thing by looking at the "From:" > >> line in the mail header. > >> > >> The right thing is being done in stable-rc and for the releases. For > >> your example here, this is how it looks like in the stable-rc tree: > >> > >> commit bdcc885be68289a37d0d063cd94390da81fd8178 > >> Author: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> AuthorDate: Mon Jan 28 16:03:50 2019 -0500 > >> Commit: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> CommitDate: Fri Sep 13 14:05:29 2019 +0100 > >> > >> drm/nouveau: Don't WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures > > > >Yeah, we should fix your scripts to put the explicit From: line in here > >as we are dealing with patches in this format and it causes confusion at > >times (like now.) It's not the first time and that's why I added those > >lines to the patches. > > Heh, didn't think anyone cared about this scenario for the stable-rc > patches. > > I'll go add it. > > But... why do you actually care? Just a hygiene thing. Everyone else sends patches the normal way, with accurate attribution. Why should stable be different? (I was surprised to see Greg contributing to nouveau when I first saw the patch. But then realized it was the stable ingestion notification.) -ilia _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
