Re: Trailers missing for some commits in linux-next 20260106

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Tue Jan 06 2026 - 20:12:18 EST


On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 09:01:22 +0800 Li Wang <liwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Those patch trailers (Signed-off-by, Reviewed-by, Acked-by, etc.) are
> missing in the linux-next tree.
> Do you know what happened? What should I do to add back that?
>
> commit 8bd5f5187 ("selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh: add waits
> with timeout helper")
> commit 378d74dfd ("selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb: drop mount
> size for hugetlbfs")
> commit 99f5e30c3 ("selftests/mm/write_to_hugetlbfs: parse -s as size_t")

These patches had "^----" in their changelogs, which git-quiltimport
incorrectly took to mean "end of changelog". I turned those into "===="
so things should be OK in next -next.

I also added a rule to my nightly check-all-the-patches script to
prevent this from occurring again.