Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] block: bugfix for Amiga partition overflow check patch

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Hi Geert,

On 5/07/23 21:08, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
>>>> Fixes: b6f3f28f60 ("block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support")
>>>> Message-ID: 024ce4fa-cc6d-50a2-9aae-3701d0ebf668@xenosoft.de
>>> Please drop this line.
>> Because it's redundant, as I've also used Link:?
> (That, too ;-)
>
> Because the use of the Message-ID: tag in patches is not documented.

Now I wonder where I picked up that habit ...

> IIRC, it might also cause issues when applying, as the downloaded patch
> will appear to have two Message-IDs.
That's correct (if you refer to a patch in mbox format), but from the 
context of the two Message-ID lines, it ought to be clear which one 
matters.
> I'm not sure the sample git hook in Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
> (and all variants the various maintainers are using) handles this correctly.

You're right, it won't check for context there.

In this particular instance, it won't use my Message-ID tag anyway 
though (forgot the angle brackets).

I'll fix that in v5 later.

Cheers,

     Michael


>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>