Re: [PATCH 5.10 00/73] 5.10.213-rc1 review

[Daniel Díaz]

Hello!

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 01:03, Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sasha Levin wrote on Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:45:27PM -0400:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.213 release.
> > There are 73 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
>
> Thanks Sasha for submitting a stable rc review!
>
> If it's not too much trouble, would it be possible to have a different
> header in the 00 patch from the other patches for my mailbox?
> The mails Greg sends have the X-KernelTest-* headers (patch, tree,
> branch etc) only in the cover letter, while all the patches themselves
> only have 'X-stable: review' and 'X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore'
>
> I don't really care much what actual tags are on which as long as
> there's a way to differentiate that cover letter from the rest so I can
> redirect it to a mailbox I actually read to notice there's a new rc to
> test, without having all the patches unless I explicitly look for them.

I subscribe to this request. We ran into unexpected issues because all
the emails in the series included the same headers as the cover.

> If it's difficult I'll add a regex on the subject for ' 00/' or
> something, I'd prefer matching only headers for robustness but just let
> me know.

That's what I ended up doing, and you know the saying: I had this
problem and solved it via regexes, now I have two problems. :) FWIW,
here's my "problem":
  '^Subject: \[PATCH\ [456]\.[0-9]+\ 0[0]*\/'

Greetings!


Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx