Re: [PATCH 4.19 092/190] drm/nouveau: Dont WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures

Ilia Mirkin
2019-09-13T15:09:35Z

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:01 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:46:27AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> >> > Hi Greg,
> >> >
> >> > This feels like it's missing a From: line.
> >> >
> >> > commit b513a18cf1d705bd04efd91c417e79e4938be093
> >> > Author: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> >> > Date: Mon Jan 28 16:03:50 2019 -0500
> >> >
> >> > drm/nouveau: Don't WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures
> >> >
> >> > Is this an artifact of your notification-of-patches process and I
> >> > never noticed before, or was the patch ingested incorrectly?
> >>
> >> It was always like this for patches that came through me. Greg's script
> >> generates an explicit "From:" line in the patch, but I never saw the
> >> value in that since git does the right thing by looking at the "From:"
> >> line in the mail header.
> >>
> >> The right thing is being done in stable-rc and for the releases. For
> >> your example here, this is how it looks like in the stable-rc tree:
> >>
> >> commit bdcc885be68289a37d0d063cd94390da81fd8178
> >> Author: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> >> AuthorDate: Mon Jan 28 16:03:50 2019 -0500
> >> Commit: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >> CommitDate: Fri Sep 13 14:05:29 2019 +0100
> >>
> >> drm/nouveau: Don't WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures
> >
> >Yeah, we should fix your scripts to put the explicit From: line in here
> >as we are dealing with patches in this format and it causes confusion at
> >times (like now.) It's not the first time and that's why I added those
> >lines to the patches.
>
> Heh, didn't think anyone cared about this scenario for the stable-rc
> patches.
>
> I'll go add it.
>
> But... why do you actually care?

Just a hygiene thing. Everyone else sends patches the normal way, with
accurate attribution. Why should stable be different?

(I was surprised to see Greg contributing to nouveau when I first saw
the patch. But then realized it was the stable ingestion
notification.)

-ilia