Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: adjust to clang-version.sh removal

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 05:15:56PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:01 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Commit 6c8ad4427f6e ("kbuild: check the minimum compiler version in
> > Kconfig") removed ./scripts/clang-version.sh and moved its content to
> > ./scripts/cc-version.sh.
> >
> > Since then, ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns complains:
> >
> >   warning: no file matches    F:    scripts/clang-version.sh
> >
> > The CLANG/LLVM BUILD SUPPORT section in MAINTAINERS intends to track
> > changes in ./scripts/clang-version.sh; as the file is removed, track
> > changes in ./scripts/cc-version.sh instead now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Good catch, Lukas.
> 
> As a tipp:
> Next time you can pass '--subject-prefix="PATCH next-YYYYMMDD"' when
> doing 'git format-patch ...' (or whatever you use to generate the
> patch).

I've never seen anyone use this prefix before.

What does the date really help?  In staging, we apply everything on top
of staging-next and if it doesn't apply then we don't investigate, we
just say "doesn't apply.  resend if needed".

We may as well just say [PATCH linux-next].  No one is ever going to
look up the date if it doesn't apply to the latest linux-next.

regards,
dan carpenter