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

[Rob Clark]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 5:38 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 07:58:14 -0700 Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > will the truncated subject confuse the scripts that look for patches
> > to backport to stable, ie. do we *really* have to rewrite history to
> > fix this?
>
> I don't know what scripts are being used and what they expect, but our
> documentation says (Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst):
>
>   If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using
>   ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of
>   the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary.  Do not split the tag across multiple
>   lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to simplify
>   parsing scripts.
>
> But, that being said, doing the rewrite is up to the maintainer.  You
> could just look at this as a learning experience and do better in the
> future.

Ok, I'll leave it up to airlied

If you don't mind sharing, what is the script you use?  We could
perhaps add it to our WIP CI..  a script is much less likely to miss a
check than a human, so I'm a fan of automating these sorts of checks
whenever possible ;-)

BR,
-R

> BTW, my script reacted to the missing closing quotes and parentheses,
> which is more like to confuse any scripts that the actual truncation.
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell