Den 22.11.2022 19.50, skrev Konstantin Ryabitsev: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 06:42:19PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote: >> The first thing that strikes me is that everyone mentioned in one of the >> patches get the entire patchset, even stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (cc'ed in a >> fixes patch). The first patch touches a core file and as a result a few >> drivers, so I've cc'ed the driver maintainers in that patch, but now >> they get the entire patchset where 5 of 6 patches is about a driver that >> I maintain. So from their point of view, they see a patchset about a >> driver they don't care about and a patch touching a core file, but from >> the subject it's not apparent that it touches their driver. I'm afraid >> that this might result in none of them looking at that patch. In this >> particular case it's not that important, but in another case it might be. > > I did some (unscientific) polling among kernel maintainers and, by a vast > margin, they always prefer to receive the entire series instead of > cherry-picked patches -- having the entire series helps provide important > context for the change they are looking at. > > So, this is deliberate and, for now at least, not configurable. Unless you're > sending 100+ patch series, I doubt anyone will have any problem with receiving > the whole series instead of individual patches. > >> As for the setting up the web endpoint, should I just follow the b4 docs >> on that? >> >> I use b4 version 0.10.1, is that recent enough? > > Yes. There will be a 0.10.2 in the near future, but the incoming fixes > shouldn't make much difference for the b4 send code. > This is what I got: $ b4 send --web-auth-verify <challenge string from email> Signing challenge Submitting verification to https://lkml.kernel.org/_b4_submit Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/.local/bin/b4", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cmd()) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py", line 341, in cmd cmdargs.func(cmdargs) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py", line 86, in cmd_send b4.ez.cmd_send(cmdargs) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line 1102, in cmd_send auth_verify(cmdargs) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line 188, in auth_verify res = ses.post(endpoint, json=req) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 590, in post return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 528, in request prep = self.prepare_request(req) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 456, in prepare_request p.prepare( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 319, in prepare self.prepare_body(data, files, json) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 469, in prepare_body body = complexjson.dumps(json) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps return _default_encoder.encode(obj) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode return _iterencode(o, 0) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 179, in default raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} ' TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable $ python3 --version Python 3.10.6 Turning on debug output didn't add much: $ b4 -d send --web-auth-verify 7ad470b4-f531-4632-8093-738d4d3e5d88 Running git --no-pager rev-parse --show-toplevel Running git --no-pager config -z --get-regexp b4\..* Running git --no-pager config -z --get-regexp gpg\..* Running git --no-pager config -z --get-regexp user\..* Signing challenge Submitting verification to https://lkml.kernel.org/_b4_submit Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/.local/bin/b4", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cmd()) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py", line 341, in cmd cmdargs.func(cmdargs) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/command.py", line 86, in cmd_send b4.ez.cmd_send(cmdargs) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line 1102, in cmd_send auth_verify(cmdargs) File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/b4/ez.py", line 188, in auth_verify res = ses.post(endpoint, json=req) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 590, in post return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 528, in request prep = self.prepare_request(req) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 456, in prepare_request p.prepare( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 319, in prepare self.prepare_body(data, files, json) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 469, in prepare_body body = complexjson.dumps(json) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps return _default_encoder.encode(obj) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode return _iterencode(o, 0) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/encoder.py", line 179, in default raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} ' TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable Noralf.