Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755230Ab0ANFYN (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:24:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753483Ab0ANFYM (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:24:12 -0500 Received: from mail02d.mail.t-online.hu ([84.2.42.7]:58623 "EHLO mail02d.mail.t-online.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752299Ab0ANFYL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:24:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4B4EAA73.5060103@freemail.hu> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:24:03 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=E9meth_M=E1rton?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; hu-HU; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090402 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH , Julia Lawall CC: Alan Stern , Stefan Richter , David Vrabel , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, LKML , cocci@diku.dk Subject: Re: Changelog quality References: <20100113174446.GA20754@kroah.com> <20100113195226.GD8438@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100113195226.GD8438@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-DCC-mail.t-online.hu-Metrics: mail02d.mail.t-online.hu 32711; Body=8 Fuz1=8 Fuz2=8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1880 Lines: 45 Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote: >> >>>> It would be nice if there was a way to link automatically a git commit >>>> to an archived copy of the email message in which it was originally >>>> submitted. >>> Ingo has been doing this on some patches by putting a message-id field >>> in the signed-off-by area showing what lkml message a patch came from. >>> >>> See git commit id 6432e734c99ed685e3cad72f7dcae4c65008fcab in Linus's >>> tree as an example of this. >>> >>> I have no objection if people want to do this for any patches going >>> through my tree as well. >> If it has to be included manually by the patch submitter then it isn't >> automatic. Not to mention that the submitter would need to know the >> email's message-id before the email message was sent! >> >> Something like this should belong in a maintainer's script. > > Yeah, that would get messy, as usually a patch happens in a different > thread than the original problem occurs, so it would take a lot more > work on my part to try to match things up. If I notice it, I will try > to in the future. What about introducing a new tag like 'SmPL-Used:'? The used SmPL could be placed somewhere in the web. This would require only one line in the changelog: e.g.: SmPL-Used: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/sp.php#usb_submit_urb Usually when an SmPL is created in a general manner it can easily match 100+ places. These can be combined in groups which for example belong to one maintainter. That was what I did with adding const to the different ID tables. Regards, M?rton N?meth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/