On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:48:49AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 02:15:30PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:08:46PM +0800, Zqiang wrote: > > > From: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org> > > > > > > commit bc31e6cb27a9334140ff2f0a209d59b08bc0bc8c upstream. > > > > Again, not a valid commit id :( > > Apologies! With luck, there will be a valid ID next merge window. > This one does not backport cleanly, so we were trying to get ahead of > the game. Also, some of the people testing needed the backport due > to the usual issues. :-/ > > Any advice to handle this better next time around? (Aside from us > avoiding CCing stable too soon...)
You can just wait until it hits Linus's tree, otherwise we do get confused :) Or if you don't want to wait, put it in the notes section below the --- line and say "this isn't in Linus's tree yet, the git id mentioned is a lie!" or something like that. Give us a chance to figure it out please... thanks, greg k-h
