Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the block tree

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Konstantin,

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:56:05 -0400 Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 07:32:15PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 6/26/20 5:07 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:  
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > In commit
> > > 
> > >   cd664b0e35cb ("io_uring: fix hanging iopoll in case of -EAGAIN")
> > > 
> > > Fixes tag
> > > 
> > >   Fixes: bbde017a32b3 ("io_uring: add memory barrier to synchronize
> > > 
> > > has these problem(s):
> > > 
> > >   - Subject has leading but no trailing parentheses
> > >   - Subject has leading but no trailing quotes
> > > 
> > > Please do not split Fixes tags over more than one line.  
> > 
> > Gah, that's b4 messing it up. I've actually seen this before, but
> > I caught it. If you look at the actual commit, this is what the b4
> > output ends up being for the fixes line:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > io_kiocb's result and iopoll_completed")
> > 
> > Fixes: bbde017a32b3 ("io_uring: add memory barrier to synchronize
> > 
> > even though it's correct in the email. I'm guessing some issue having to
> > do with the longer line?  
> 
> Yeah, I'll try to see if there's something I can do here, but it's going 
> to be largely guesswork. Here's the original email:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/22111b29e298f5f606130fcf4307bda99dbec089.1593077359.git.asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx/raw
> 
> The Fixes: footer really does get split into two. It's not that hard to 
> add logic just for the Fixes tag (since it conveniently follows a set 
> pattern), but finding a universal fix for split footers will be more 
> difficult.
> 
> I'll see what I can do.

But (what am I missing?) the Fixes: tag has been split over 2 lines in
the original message ... on lore and my copy.  There is nothing for b4
to do here, the author needs to do this right.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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