Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] libxfs-apply: drop Cc: to stable release list

Darrick J. Wong
2025-02-13T21:45:42Z

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 09:14:31PM +0100, Andrey Albershteyn wrote:
> These Cc: tags are intended for kernel commits which need to be
> backported to stable kernels. Maintainers of stable kernel aren't
> interested in xfsprogs syncs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
> ---
> tools/libxfs-apply | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/libxfs-apply b/tools/libxfs-apply
> index 097a695f942bb832c2fb1456a0fd8c28c025d1a6..e9672e572d23af296dccfe6499eda9b909f44afd 100755
> --- a/tools/libxfs-apply
> +++ b/tools/libxfs-apply
> @@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ fixup_header_format()
> }
> /^Date:/ { date_seen=1; next }
> /^difflib/ { next }
> + /[Cc]{2}: <?stable@vger.kernel.org>?.*/ { next }

You might want to ignore the angle brackets, because some people do:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

which is valid rfc822 even if SubmittingPatches says not to do that.
Annoyingly, other parts of the documentation lay that out as an example.

/[Cc]{2}:.*stable@vger.kernel.org/ { next }

<shrug>

--D

>
> // {
> if (date_seen == 0)
>
> --
> 2.47.2
>
>