Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755826Ab0ANGFh (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:05:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751655Ab0ANGFh (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:05:37 -0500 Received: from mgw2.diku.dk ([130.225.96.92]:46592 "EHLO mgw2.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751139Ab0ANGFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:05:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:05:32 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=E9meth_M=E1rton?= Cc: Greg KH , Alan Stern , Stefan Richter , David Vrabel , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, LKML , cocci@diku.dk Subject: Re: Changelog quality In-Reply-To: <4B4EAA73.5060103@freemail.hu> Message-ID: References: <20100113174446.GA20754@kroah.com> <20100113195226.GD8438@kroah.com> <4B4EAA73.5060103@freemail.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-511516320-20773290-1263449132=:18724" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2124 Lines: 50 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---511516320-20773290-1263449132=:18724 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, N?meth M?rton wrote: > 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 There is no guarantee that this URL will be valid 5 or 10 years from now. julia ---511516320-20773290-1263449132=:18724-- -- 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/