Re: [PATCH 4.19 68/81] ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: PPTT add additional fields in Processor Structure Flags

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:59:12AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Commit b5eab512e7cffb2bb37c4b342b5594e9e75fd486 upstream.
> 
> So this introduces another format of "upstream" information. So far I
> had this:
> 
> 		ma = re.match(".*Upstream commit ([0-9a-f]*) .*", l)
> 		...
>                 ma = re.match("commit ([0-9a-f]*) upstream[.]*", l)

do a case-insensitive search :)

> I believe this information belongs to the signoff area; it is
> important to know who pushed patch to the upstream and who is pusing
> it to the stable.
> 
> Could we just introduce "Upstream: <sha1>" tag and use it? It would
> improve consistency...

It would, I have plans for that, been busy with other stuff...

thanks,

greg k-h