Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote: >> >>>> It would be nice if there was a way to link automatically a git commit >>>> to an archived copy of the email message in which it was originally >>>> submitted. >>> Ingo has been doing this on some patches by putting a message-id field >>> in the signed-off-by area showing what lkml message a patch came from. >>> >>> See git commit id 6432e734c99ed685e3cad72f7dcae4c65008fcab in Linus's >>> tree as an example of this. >>> >>> I have no objection if people want to do this for any patches going >>> through my tree as well. >> If it has to be included manually by the patch submitter then it isn't >> automatic. Not to mention that the submitter would need to know the >> email's message-id before the email message was sent! >> >> Something like this should belong in a maintainer's script. > > Yeah, that would get messy, as usually a patch happens in a different > thread than the original problem occurs, so it would take a lot more > work on my part to try to match things up. If I notice it, I will try > to in the future. What about introducing a new tag like 'SmPL-Used:'? The used SmPL could be placed somewhere in the web. This would require only one line in the changelog: e.g.: SmPL-Used: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/sp.php#usb_submit_urb Usually when an SmPL is created in a general manner it can easily match 100+ places. These can be combined in groups which for example belong to one maintainter. That was what I did with adding const to the different ID tables. Regards, Márton Németh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
