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

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-28T10:53:37Z

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > How about this, when sending a v2, you have it be in response to the
> > v1 patch? Same for v3, have it be in response for the v2 one. And so
> > on.
>
> I spend a ton of time tracking older versions of series (subjects often
> change).
>
> However, requiring proper follow-up headers is yet another thing for me
> to manually police. Maybe we could add a line of defense and make
> patchwork complain if somebody posts a -vN without a suitable
> --in-reply-to?

That's horrible in various mail clients. Post the new series stand alone
and add

Link://lore.kernel.org/r/$MESSAGE_ID_OF_V$N-1

to the cover letter and you have a trail.

Thanks,

tglx