From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix mmap
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:13:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiB+Q+KbMBXtZZyMChdg8E8fBL8uipJn4j_rFxbAXangA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <759480.1639473732@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 1:22 AM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Could you apply this patch please? Note the odd email address in the
> Reported-by and Tested-by fields. That's an attempt to note Auristor's
> internal testcase ID for their tracking purposes. Is this a reasonable way
> to do it? It's kind of modelled on what syzbot does.
Yeah, this looks sane to me.
I don't like bare bug tracking IDs that don't tell anybody else
anything, but the "embedding it in the email" trick means that it now
(a) gives a contact for it so that it contains meaningful information
and (b) also acts a "namespace" for the testcase ID.
Applied.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-16 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-14 9:22 [PATCH] afs: Fix mmap David Howells
2021-12-16 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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2021-12-13 16:57 David Howells
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