Re: [PATCH 1/8] arm: Convert pr_warning to pr_warn

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Tue Sep 16 2014 - 15:58:00 EST


On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:18:01AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 17:07 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > any chance you could add a KernelVersion: tag somewhere in the
> > commit message and throw it at patches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so it doesn't
> > get lost?
>
> There are no commit logs with a KernelVersion: tag
> in all of git history.

Right, that's not it's purpose.

> What do you think a KernelVersion: tag is and what
> would it be used for?

It's for that email address to know which kernel version the patch
was generated against, which is useful information when I come to
apply it. It gets filtered out from the commit message. It can go
anywhere, even below the -- line.

If you don't want to cooperate, you will have to rely on my notoriously
bad email skills to scan the mailing list for random patches to apply
some time (maybe days or even weeks) later after you send your message.
Which just won't happen. It's why I wrote scripts which are some 20
years old to solve my bad email patch handling skills.

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