Re: kconfig/menu.c: Fixup to "kconfig: fix undesirable side effect of adding "visible" menu attribute" ?

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Sedat, Dirk, All,

On 2013-07-31 16:22 +0200, Sedat Dilek spake thusly:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net> wrote:
> > Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> writes:
> >> The Freetz router project has 370 [1] as a revert-patch of [2] to its
> >> kconfig-v3.8.
> >>
> >> commit 7ad1227818f09242cfe9bf1845fd24211f5f99bd
> >> "kconfig: fix undesirable side effect of adding "visible" menu attribute"
> >>
> >> I am not a kconfig-expert, but [3] looks like a fixup/folowup to it.
> >>
> >> commit/?id=e983b7b17ad1a978e954e6aaa62cf12bfc747883
> >> "kconfig/menu.c: fix multiple references to expressions in menu_add_prop()"
> >>
> >> I contacted Yann in private, but I think this is worth to ask on the
> >> linux-kbuild ML.

Yes, there was no reason to write such a question in private.

> > you are right, [3] fixes a problem that was introduced by [2].
> > (I should have noted that in the commit message -- I'm not sure if we
> > can fix that afterwards.)

No, it's been pushed to a public tree, it's too late.
It's even in Linus' tree, so it is really too late!

> thanks for the clarification and fixing this up.
> I told Yann in my private email to always add a reference to the
> "culprit" commit (root-cause).

Since I was not the author of that patch, I have no way to know if it is
"a fix for a previous commit", or "just a fix", if the original author
does not provide this information.

Except for the patches I write, I "just" collect (and test/review) the
patches to kconfig in my tree, to make it a bit easier for Michal. I
just pass the patches' commit logs as-is (or do trivial edits if
needed), so what gets in the tree is the responsibility of the author.
Hey, Dirk! ;-)

But on the principle, I do agree: if the patch fixes a regression
introduced by a previous changeset, it should be referenced in the
commit log of that new patch, indeed.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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