From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A42BC433F5 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2357D61037 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232990AbhKEQlI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2021 12:41:08 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:58662 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233366AbhKEQlH (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2021 12:41:07 -0400 Received: from in01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.51]:42698) by out01.mta.xmission.com with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1mj2ET-0040wi-Cl; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:38:25 -0600 Received: from ip68-227-160-95.om.om.cox.net ([68.227.160.95]:47856 helo=email.xmission.com) by in01.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1mj2ER-005uAo-CI; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:38:24 -0600 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Al Viro , Kees Cook , Linux API References: <878ry512iv.fsf@disp2133> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:37:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 3 Nov 2021 12:34:44 -0700") Message-ID: <871r3uy2vw.fsf@disp2133> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-SPF: eid=1mj2ER-005uAo-CI;;;mid=<871r3uy2vw.fsf@disp2133>;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=68.227.160.95;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX19VqaJj8/S8xVQx26R9tPAt2wUIi1RqVro= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.227.160.95 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] per signal_struct coredumps X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:53:50 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 12:07 PM Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Please pull the per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16 branch > > I've pulled it, but I'm not convinced about that odd extra merge > commit that contains the commentary. > > That's what signed tags are for, and they have that explanation that > then makes it into the merge - plus they have the crypto signature to > show it all comes from you. > > So that would have been the much better model than a fake extra merge. > > But at least that extra merge did have explanations, so at least it > doesn't trigger me on _that_ level. I have been creating those when I place a patchset with an interesting cover letter in a branch. Now with the entire branch being just that patchset, it doesn't make a lot of sense (except as somewhere to store that cover letter so I don't loose it). At other times when there are multiple sets of changes on a single branch I think it makes more sense. Am I missing a better way to preserve the cover letter for the changes when multiple sets of changes land in a single branch? Eric