From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <51E04AB9.1000003@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:28:09 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712025745.GA24086@tuxdriver.com> <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> <51E03AEE.5010403@zytor.com> <20130712172836.GA7627@kroah.com> <20130712175718.GA342@thunk.org> <51E0480A.2040905@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <51E0480A.2040905@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/12/2013 11:16 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > This relates to the "a posteori metadata" problem with git. In theory I > think git notes should handle those, but I have to admit that git notes > somewhat creep me out because there doesn't seem to be any version > control on them, and as far as I can tell there is only one note per object. > OK, just read up some more on git notes, and *both* the assumptions I had made about git notes were fundamentally wrong. Not sure how well they would scale, though, but stuffing metadata like additional Acked-by:, Tested-by: and Cc: stable into notes seems more viable after reading the spec. -hpa