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

Martin K. Petersen
2019-08-28T12:47:11Z

Thomas,

>> 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.

I'm not sure why it would get messed up if the patches are clearly
tagged as vN?

As far as I'm concerned, the more we automate, the better. Both in terms
of producing the links, but also in terms of verifying that they are
present and correct when patches are applied.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering