Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: USB MASS STORAGE DRIVER

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 08:41:54PM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 08.07.20 um 12:39 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> > > Rationale:
> > > Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> > > as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
> > > 
> > > Deterministic algorithm:
> > > For each file:
> > >    If not .svg:
> > >      For each line:
> > >        If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
> > >          For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
> > > 	  If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
> > >              If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
> > >              return 200 OK and serve the same content:
> > >                Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
> > 
> > Your subject lines are very odd compared to all patches for this
> > subsystem, as well as all other kernel subsystems.  Any reason you are
> > doing it this way and not the normal and standard method of:
> > 	USB: storage: replace http links with https
> > 
> > That would look more uniform as well as not shout at anyone.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm very sorry.
> 
> As Torvalds has merged 93431e0607e5 and many of you devs (including big
> maintainers like David Miller) just applied this stuff, I assumed that's OK.
> 
> And now I've rolled out tens of patches via shell loop... *sigh*
> 
> As this is the third (I think) change request like this, I assume this rule
> applies to all subsystems – right?

Yes, you should try to emulate what the subsystem does, look at other
patches for the same files, but the format I suggested is almost always
the correct one.  If not, I'm sure maintainers will be glad to tell you
otherwise :)

thanks,

greg k-h