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

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-27T14:09:25Z

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 8/27/19 6:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Note, we have 4000+ developers every year, it's hard enough to get them
> > all to agree on major things, let alone crazy stuff like this :)
> >
>
> Is it really that crazy ?
>
> I have to use a combination of subject analysis and patch content analysis
> using fuzzy text / string comparison, combined with an analysis of the patch
> description, to answer a simple question: Is this patch upstream, and what is
> its upstream SHA ? Having a UUID tag would make this a simple and
> straightforward operation. What is crazy is having to do all this analysis.

Again. If we agree on adding

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/$Message-ID

then you have your UUID tag. The tip bot sends you a reply based on that
tag and I know you got some of them already.

Thanks,

tglx