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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@google.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Paul Taysom <taysom@chromium.org>,
	Paul Taysom <taysom@google.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix mod_timer crash when removing USB sticks
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:23:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120112152303.420e723e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120112223544.GC18166@google.com>

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:35:44 -0800
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> wrote:

> Theodore Tso (tytso@google.com) wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > What is the conventional way of doing this? There is a lot of good
> > > data in the bug report which might be useful to reviewers. We
> > > couldn't find a de-facto way of referencing the downstream bug database
> > > so we just made up a new field. Sorry. We'll use the correct
> > > field name next time.
> > >
> > 
> > There isn't a "correct field name", since it hasn't been standardized.  I
> > can tell you as an the ext4 maintainer, I've put things like
> > 
> > Addresses-Redhat-Bugzilla: <Bugzilla #>
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > Addresses-Debian-Bug: <debian-bug-number>
> > 
> 
> This seems like a good convention. Its also nice in that it scales to
> the case where the bug is reported by multiple distros.
> 
> For future, we'll use:
> 
> Addresses-ChromiumOS-Bug: http://crosbug.com/<Bug #>
> 
> I included the URL because its small and folks might not know where
> our bug database is.

I put "Addresses <some URL>" into the changelog.  Just in the text body,
not as one of the tag:value pairs at the end of the changelog.

z:/usr/src/git26> git log | grep "Addresses http" | wc -l
121


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-12 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 21:15 [PATCH] fs: Fix mod_timer crash when removing USB sticks Paul Taysom
2012-01-12 21:38 ` Greg KH
2012-01-12 21:53   ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2012-01-12 22:02     ` Greg KH
2012-01-12 22:11     ` Theodore Tso
     [not found]     ` <CAGagf4dk4KsZSkaWTO9Yegi=_wRJsYBPgfyks1z=wMZJV8gX0w@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-12 22:35       ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2012-01-12 23:23         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-01-13  5:42 ` Josh Boyer
2012-01-13 15:39   ` Paul Taysom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-12 21:57 Paul Taysom
2012-03-16 17:36 ` Greg KH
2012-03-16 19:29   ` Paul Taysom
2012-03-16 19:43     ` Greg KH
2012-03-16 21:10       ` Theodore Tso
2012-03-17  0:06         ` Greg KH
2012-03-17 14:21         ` Alan Stern
2012-03-18  3:44           ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-18 20:23             ` Alan Stern
2012-03-18 22:25               ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2012-03-20  0:24                 ` Paul Taysom
2012-03-20  2:02                   ` Alan Stern
2012-03-22 16:15                     ` Paul Taysom
2012-01-12 19:57 Paul Taysom
2012-01-12 20:15 ` Greg KH
2012-01-13 11:28 ` Sergei Shtylyov

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