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

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

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
> 
>