From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15A5C3AAD for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qt1-f194.google.com (mail-qt1-f194.google.com [209.85.160.194]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 770D513A for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qt1-f194.google.com with SMTP id n7so1421789qtb.6 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:15:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190827134836.GB25038@kroah.com> <20190827153344.GC534@kroah.com> <20190827195351.GA30710@kroah.com> <20190828090837.GA31704@kroah.com> <20190828135820.GA24857@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: From: Rob Herring Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:15:10 -0500 Message-ID: To: Doug Anderson Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Joel Fernandes , Barret Rhoden , ksummit , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jonathan Nieder , Tomasz Figa , Han-Wen Nienhuys , Theodore Tso , David Rientjes , Dmitry Torokhov , Dmitry Vyukov Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Allowing something Change-Id (or something like it) in kernel commits List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:39 PM Doug Anderson wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 6:58 AM Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 08:38:33AM -0400, Joel Fernandes via Ksummit-discuss wrote: > > > The idea is to make it trivial. All of the steps above are automatic > > > and scripted, that's the whole point of what I was saying - to make it > > > automatic. If it is not automated, then it is unlikely to be adopted > > > widely or unlikely to stick. The final user will experience it as > > > trivial. > > > > I'm going to gently suggest that we've reached the point where instead > > of people trying to argue for their suggested solution is to actually > > *implement* a prototype. It'll be a lot easier for people to judge a > > particular solution if it exists, than to debate about vaporware. > > For anyone interested, I've prototyped up my proposed solution. I > personally use patman (a tool hosted in U-Boot) for managing my > upstream posting so I have posted a patch to patman that encodes the > Change-Id in Message-Id. We will see what folks there think of it. > There are at least a handful of other people who use patman for Linux > but lots in U-Boot so maybe it'll be a good way to get a feel for > this. > > Feel free to look at: > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1154833/ > > The actual Message-Id generated there was: > > 20190828132723.0.RFC.Ie6289f437ae533d7fcaddfcee9202f0e92c6b2b9@changeid > > Thomas Gleixner: I tried using the python library to generate a > Message-Id but it produced something that was way too long and I felt > that would be a showstopper when a maintainer in Linux tried to > provide a "Link:" to one of my patches. I have generated my own > format based on what Rob Herring seems to do (an example Message-Id I > see from him is "20190827223716.GA31605@bogus"). FWIW, that's just mutt configuration to not expose your hostname: set hidden_host = yes set hostname = bogus Rob