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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Patch version changes in commit logs?
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 07:57:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1562425034.3029.3.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190706140215.GD12409@piout.net>

On Sat, 2019-07-06 at 16:02 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 05/07/2019 13:24:57+1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:
> > > Cc: tags are another git artefact.  They're how you tell git-
> > > send-email 
> > > where to send copies of the patch for review or notice, but they
> > > don't
> > > really provide any intrinsic historical value.
> > 
> > Right, but it wasn't clear to me if anyone felt that they *do* have
> > historical value. Seems not.
> > 
> 
> Some maintainers do think it is useful:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171128161014.GG27409@jhogan-linux.mips
> tec.com/

Apart from stable, the only other cc I think is historically useful is
when I'm carrying a patch that impinges on another maintainer's tree
and they were cc'd for an ack which never arrived.  Then the cc in the
changelog tells Linus at least we tried.

James

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-06 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-28 20:11 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Patch version changes in commit logs? Shuah Khan
2019-06-28 20:51 ` Luck, Tony
2019-06-28 21:05   ` Kees Cook
2019-06-28 21:07   ` Shuah Khan
2019-06-28 21:13     ` James Bottomley
2019-06-28 21:42       ` Shuah Khan
2019-06-28 21:07   ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-29  6:19   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-29  9:10     ` Christian Brauner
2019-06-29 13:43     ` Andrea Parri
2019-06-29 15:16       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-30 16:31         ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-07-01  7:20           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-01  7:49             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-01  7:53               ` Takashi Iwai
2019-07-17  9:23                 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-07-17  9:27                   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-07-17  9:28                   ` Greg KH
2019-07-17 16:09                     ` Linus Walleij
2019-07-17 20:44                       ` Greg KH
2019-07-18  9:09                       ` Linus Walleij
2019-07-22 17:02                       ` Kees Cook
2019-07-22 17:12                         ` Joe Perches
2019-07-01 17:27               ` Steven Rostedt
2019-07-01 17:55                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-01  9:48           ` Andrea Parri
2019-07-01  9:51             ` Andrea Parri
2019-07-02  4:40     ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-07-02  7:27       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-07-02  9:48         ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-06-29  6:57   ` Takashi Iwai
2019-06-29  7:09     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-29  7:18       ` Takashi Iwai
2019-06-29 11:20         ` Mark Brown
2019-06-30 16:01           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-01  1:35             ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-07-01 11:10               ` Mark Brown
2019-08-08  5:24               ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-07-01  9:05       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-07-01  9:15         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-07-04 12:15       ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-04 13:24         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-07-04 14:16           ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-05  3:37             ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-05  4:10               ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-05  6:28                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-05  8:24                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-07-04 14:22         ` James Bottomley
2019-07-05  3:24           ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-06 14:02             ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-07-06 14:57               ` James Bottomley [this message]
2019-07-05  3:40           ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-05  8:40           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-28 21:07 ` James Bottomley
2019-07-01 15:06 ` David Howells
2019-07-01 15:40   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-01 15:48     ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-07-01 15:50     ` James Bottomley
2019-07-01 17:54       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-02 14:20         ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 14:49           ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-02 15:10             ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 15:18               ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 15:39                 ` Shuah Khan
2019-07-02 15:51                   ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 16:30                     ` Kees Cook
2019-07-02 21:16                       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-07-02 21:33                       ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 22:07                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-02 22:26                           ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 22:43                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-07-02 22:49                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-03 23:52                                 ` Ralf Ramsauer
2019-07-02 22:53                               ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 23:12                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-02 23:04                               ` Kees Cook
2019-07-02 23:18                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-07-02 23:31                                   ` Kees Cook
2019-07-02 23:33                                   ` James Bottomley
2019-07-03  4:16                                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-07-03  4:50                                       ` James Bottomley
2019-07-03 14:42                                         ` Kees Cook
2019-07-02 23:41                                   ` Kees Cook
2019-07-03  7:51                                     ` Greg KH
2019-07-03  8:56                               ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-07-03  9:12                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-03 12:39                                   ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-07-03 22:53                                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-07-03 13:50                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-07-03 14:10                                   ` Jan Kara
2019-07-03 17:05                                     ` Mark Brown
2019-07-03 19:11                                   ` Frank Rowand
2019-07-05  9:26                                   ` Linus Walleij
2019-07-05 19:34                                     ` Mike Rapoport
2019-07-06  4:42                                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-07-07 21:56                                       ` Frank Rowand
2019-07-03 23:03                                 ` James Bottomley
2019-07-04  7:10                                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-07-05  9:03                                 ` Linus Walleij
2019-07-02 22:48                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-02 23:05                               ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 19:03                     ` Shuah Khan
2019-07-02 15:30               ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-02 15:40                 ` James Bottomley
2019-07-02 15:49                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-02 20:44               ` Jiri Kosina

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