Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
>>
>> It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the
>> changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable
>> team.  This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer
>> the only way into stable.  (Also, fix a double "the".)
> 
> I find the upstream commit ID to be highly useful when looking at
> commits in the stable tree.  So it would be nice IMHO if we could
> enforce this requirement regardless of whether the submission path is
> via e-mail or git.

In the semi-automatic submission path via git --- i.e. of commits which
feature a Cc: stable@kernel.org line in the changelog when they show up
in Linus' tree --- the upstream commit ID is not known to the submitter
at the time of submission.  Apparently Greg's scripts modify the
changelogs respectively when he cherry-picks from linux-2.6.git, so the
requirement is also always fulfilled with this alternative submission path.

E.g. as in http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/22/294 which was apparently
submitted the semi-automatic way, via
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=44fef22416886a04d432043f741a6faf2c6ffefd
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Stefan Richter
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