On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:10:43AM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> > I think we should specify a format that everyone should use.  I did
>> > draft some new wording for stable_kernel_rules.txt which I should send
>> > out...
>> >
>>
>> I agree but it seems that Greg thinks that won't be possible in the
>> long term even if a pattern is specified.
>
> That is not what Greg is thinking, or said.

I'm apologize to Greg then ;)

> I really don't understand the issue here.

Maybe this example can help to clarify things (probably for me): Let's
say that you, as a stable tree releaser, want to be sure that any
commits have the link to the corresponding upstream commit since it's
an important information to have. One simple solution would be to
check that the link is present before committing (by using a git hook
for example). Now you need to search for a pattern in the commit log:
either you grep for all possible patterns and add a new one each time
someone decides to create his own pattern or you specify one pattern
and ask anybody to use it.

This assumes that everybody will provide the upstream hash, but IIRC
this is specified by the stable tree rules.

Thanks
--
Francis
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