Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix mod_timer crash when removing USB sticks

[Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:35:44 -0800
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Theodore Tso (tytso-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org) wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Mandeep Singh Baines <msb-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > What is the conventional way of doing this? There is a lot of good
> > > data in the bug report which might be useful to reviewers. We
> > > couldn't find a de-facto way of referencing the downstream bug database
> > > so we just made up a new field. Sorry. We'll use the correct
> > > field name next time.
> > >
> > 
> > There isn't a "correct field name", since it hasn't been standardized.  I
> > can tell you as an the ext4 maintainer, I've put things like
> > 
> > Addresses-Redhat-Bugzilla: <Bugzilla #>
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > Addresses-Debian-Bug: <debian-bug-number>
> > 
> 
> This seems like a good convention. Its also nice in that it scales to
> the case where the bug is reported by multiple distros.
> 
> For future, we'll use:
> 
> Addresses-ChromiumOS-Bug: http://crosbug.com/<Bug #>
> 
> I included the URL because its small and folks might not know where
> our bug database is.

I put "Addresses <some URL>" into the changelog.  Just in the text body,
not as one of the tag:value pairs at the end of the changelog.

z:/usr/src/git26> git log | grep "Addresses http" | wc -l
121

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