From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965205Ab3GLS2b (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:28:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38133 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933256Ab3GLS23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:28:29 -0400 Message-ID: <51E04AB9.1000003@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:28:09 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712025745.GA24086@tuxdriver.com> <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> <51E03AEE.5010403@zytor.com> <20130712172836.GA7627@kroah.com> <20130712175718.GA342@thunk.org> <51E0480A.2040905@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <51E0480A.2040905@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/12/2013 11:16 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > This relates to the "a posteori metadata" problem with git. In theory I > think git notes should handle those, but I have to admit that git notes > somewhat creep me out because there doesn't seem to be any version > control on them, and as far as I can tell there is only one note per object. > OK, just read up some more on git notes, and *both* the assumptions I had made about git notes were fundamentally wrong. Not sure how well they would scale, though, but stuffing metadata like additional Acked-by:, Tested-by: and Cc: stable into notes seems more viable after reading the spec. -hpa