From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch net] devlink: convert occ_get op to separate registration Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:22:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20180410.152257.1812747859010556634.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180410.103507.935086967648690369.davem@davemloft.net> <20180410190819.GI2341@sasha-vm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, jiri@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, idosch@mellanox.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org To: Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180410190819.GI2341@sasha-vm> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Sasha Levin Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:08:20 +0000 > The bot tries to take the "dumb" part out of your way, by letting > you know from the start which trees this applied/built on and what > dependencies it might have. It comes for free, why not use it? I do this already while I'm processing the -stable queue in patchwork and it automatically falls right out of the process I use to extract patches out of Linus's GIT tree. I manually pull the commit out of Linus's tree, verify that it is actually the commit I'm interested in, then I do two things: 1) I look at the exact tag that the commit landed in using "git describe --contains SHA1_ID" 2) I look at the exact tag that the commit the Fixes: tag points at landed using "git describe --contains SHA1_ID" I double check #2 to see for cases whether the Fixes: tag itself was backported to stable trees. I use these two tag values to organize the -stable queue into subdirectories. This guides my patch applying in order to minimize useless work. So I have to do all of this work anyways. Even if the bot provided these values, I would still double check them, every single one of them. Therefore, the net result from my perspective is that for most patches fixing bugs on this list, instead of N list postings, there will now be at least N * 2. Bots are starting to overwhelm actual content from human beings on this list, and I want to put my foot on the brake right now before it gets even more out of control. Thank you.