Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Allowing something Change-Id (or something like it) in kernel commits

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-25T07:09:41Z

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:15:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > For incoming stuff, I just mark a full mailthread or several of them in the
> > mail client, store it as mbox and then I have a script which creates a
> > quilt series out of it. That script does a bunch of things:
> >
> > - Collect Reviewed-by, Acked-by, Tested-by tags either from individual
> > replies or replies to the cover letter. The latter apply to the whole
> > series.
> >
> > - Adds my Signed-off-by
> >
> > - Extract message-id for each patch and add the
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/$MSGID
> >
> > - A few magic things which I need for my emacs integration
>
> I use quilt for processing incoming changes for ext4 as well; would
> you mind sharing your script? This sounds like it would be really
> useful for me.

Sure. Give me a day or two to make it less embarrassing by removing the
duct tape it grew over time. :)

Thanks,

tglx