On Wednesday 13 January 2010 09:24:03 pm Németh Márton wrote: > 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. > Hm, I usually am only marginally interested in how patch was generated, you may have used a script to 'ed' to generate it for all I care. I do care however about rationale behind the change and that is what should go into changelogs. So if these scripts could go below the "---" separator I'm all for it. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- 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
