b4 review not picking up v2 with prefix?

b4 review not picking up v2 with prefix?

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

Hi Konstantin,

Thanks for b4 review is a great tool that I'm now integrating into my workflow
(alongside b4 for sending series which I previously... resisted :)

So maybe an edge case here, and sorry for lazy report vs. patching (just so much
to do elsewhere) but for series [0] I set a mm-hotfixes prefix via:

$ b4 prep --set-prefixes 'mm-hotfixes'

Which is a convention in mm used sometimes to highlight that a series/patch
is a hotfix.

I have the v1 tracked ([1]), but when doing an update via 'u' or 'U' in the
review tui it doesn't seem to find the v2.

To make things more complicated, I sent patches separately previously ([2]
and [3]) which I decided to combine into the series sent in [0].

$ b4 --version
0.15.2

Thanks, Lorenzo

(And yes I am using b4 review to track my own series as well as reviews :P
makes it easier for me to keep track of what I've sent also :)

[0]:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260712-series-vmap-race-fix-v2-0-ad134cc3a12a@kernel.org/
[1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710-series-vmap-race-fix-v1-0-5b3794c113fe@kernel.org/
[2]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710-fix-cpa-ptdump-race-v1-1-d898699a7417@kernel.org/
[3]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710-b4-fix-non-init_mm-ptdump-v1-1-2d40982c98ec@kernel.org/

Re: b4 review not picking up v2 with prefix?

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 12:06:49PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> Thanks for b4 review is a great tool that I'm now integrating into my workflow
> (alongside b4 for sending series which I previously... resisted :)
>
> So maybe an edge case here, and sorry for lazy report vs. patching (just so much
> to do elsewhere) but for series [0] I set a mm-hotfixes prefix via:
>
> $ b4 prep --set-prefixes 'mm-hotfixes'
>
> Which is a convention in mm used sometimes to highlight that a series/patch
> is a hotfix.
>
> I have the v1 tracked ([1]), but when doing an update via 'u' or 'U' in the
> review tui it doesn't seem to find the v2.
>
> To make things more complicated, I sent patches separately previously ([2]
> and [3]) which I decided to combine into the series sent in [0].

Ohhh this may be on purpose. I noticed with v3 that it picked it up, but kept it
at v2, and prompted me to do 'a' (action) then 'U' (upgrade) so possibly PEBKAC
here :>)

>
> $ b4 --version
> 0.15.2
>
> Thanks, Lorenzo
>
> (And yes I am using b4 review to track my own series as well as reviews :P
> makes it easier for me to keep track of what I've sent also :)
>
> [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260712-series-vmap-race-fix-v2-0-ad134cc3a12a@kernel.org/
> [1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710-series-vmap-race-fix-v1-0-5b3794c113fe@kernel.org/
> [2]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710-fix-cpa-ptdump-race-v1-1-d898699a7417@kernel.org/
> [3]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710-b4-fix-non-init_mm-ptdump-v1-1-2d40982c98ec@kernel.org/

Cheers, Lorenzo