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

Andrey Albershteyn
2025-02-13T22:27:13Z

On 2025-02-13 13:45:41, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 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:

The ? does that :) One or zero of <>

>
> 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
> >
> >
>

--
- Andrey