From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM, RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_DKIM_INVALID shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6F91F4F8 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 04:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751393AbcJLEn5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:43:57 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f67.google.com ([209.85.218.67]:33173 "EHLO mail-oi0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847AbcJLEnz (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:43:55 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f67.google.com with SMTP id i127so2733742oia.0 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:43:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ew0cibUtfaSFem1FozmqhB0JjIjPwnF8cjjIw0WotvA=; b=JKCm/mhYN01kmcYFXXxhK2tzGnq/E4Gzeu6jILg74oRpInISG1cC2VkwIAZ2kFy6Tn y9zmj0YEDsj7FxdffPKEFtN0CZA2zDn2GC25LpJaL/J6gN0RvZhvzIJu39/OnITU+GM3 TrBWaWuT9wQCoZRTj4a+yUQGH/0tnxif0WHckVP9nsfRBdh6FJcFjZsb8A4bOMf1cc6z fej33wEZaq28cltsz4/vi958lf/8zDef8KS65tQKsa2HyvlEXTyLY83ETiRWY2Peh4Da L7MfBxnNEqkUVOLgl7XFtjAMrjaYK+ArgH5CeRxIBe+XPC0vpK0wEW8HUAV48YOGKiAq sDBg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ew0cibUtfaSFem1FozmqhB0JjIjPwnF8cjjIw0WotvA=; b=ALUccVK99vLCPFkRuTeU7mwGTYNG6RJqIyCbfgyrxS1nd2RdXUOUfqMyBruprf6dj9 C7pumbE7V/SNAtodIfNV8M1/glmdTY9TTTNHNN1/DsyGrADhTj394ltAYLSjAiezQWqS 6KjN5u0ceE4kFKldUiCKFWcdVAJeubhenoQhFVpLnZ9z4YFbMK3A8m4ifOiOoUwaek6I 95AflWc1oRXT//7cipf4iWclm+gwzLa6QiWyVmzETnGxkXmhp1EIw1PJQX1aMeKJ+K3e UaDoXydgYH4yKfsfJ/Q+2vZIZ9norF1VXcMGStTFkDV32kbujeglyBn91uSsKHtJjoaG Nwwg== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RntdPxgbzsQKymkW08RTWn/Sx1Ftc7Y6Na8zolaEBn19G6k06aOPBTBLEqaZWjcBw== X-Received: by 10.157.2.72 with SMTP id 66mr4062595otb.120.1476246512382; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larrylap.suse (cpe-24-31-249-175.kc.res.rr.com. [24.31.249.175]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q3sm2354895oih.11.2016.10.11.21.28.30 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Formatting problem send_mail in version 2.10.0 To: Matthieu Moy References: <41164484-309b-bfff-ddbb-55153495d41a@lwfinger.net> <20161010214856.fobd3jgsv2cnscs3@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20161010215711.oqnoiz7qfmxm27cr@sigill.intra.peff.net> <45cfc4e5-c30e-19cb-ec3e-407ceb4e3ad5@lwfinger.net> Cc: Jeff King , Mathieu Lienard--Mayor , Jorge Juan Garcia Garcia , Remi Lespinet , git@vger.kernel.org From: Larry Finger Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:28:30 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 10/11/2016 11:18 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Larry Finger writes: > >> That added information at the end is intended to be passed on to the >> stable group. In this case, the patch needs to be applied to kernel >> versions 4.8 and later. > > OK, but where do people fetch this information from? This format is used in a patch for the kernel. When the patch is merged into mainline, stable@vger.kernel.org gets sent an E-mail with a copy of the original patch. Maintainers of the indicated systems then merge the patch with their stable version. > > When you use git send-email, the content of the Cc: trailers ends up > both in the body of the message and in the Cc: field of the same > message. > > If you need the mention to appear in the body of the message, then using > parenthesis is fine: git send-email won't remove it (more precisely, > "send-email" will call "format-patch" which won't remove it). > > Not an objection to patching send-email anyway, but if there's a simple > and RFC-compliant way to do what you're looking for, we can as well use > it (possibly in addition to patching). I do not want it in the body of the message. I just want to pass a hint to the stable maintainer(s). As noted earlier, this has worked for a very long time, and I think the previous behavior should be restored. Larry >