hgext.mq/patchbomb not usable for submitting patches to lkml

Andrea Arcangeli andrea at qumranet.com
Thu May 15 09:49:41 CDT 2008


Hello,

unfortunately it seems it isn't possible to use the mqueue+patchbomb
extension to submit patches to lkml without breaking
SubmittingPatches, I got complains because of this when it wasn't
entirely my fault.

The first problem is that the "From:" I add manually at the top of the
patch header, is going to be used as "User" in the patchbomb header
instead of being kept and represented as first line of the body like
SubmittingPatches requires. The scripts used by the kernel maintainers
picks the From at the top of the body as the original author of the
patch, they know nothing about User as they're git oriented and nobody
uses hg there.

# HG changeset patch
# User Xxxx <asdasd at cpushare.com>
# Date 1210862541 -7200
# Node ID f69f3d0f6a2d5619c9ca620193015876b41fd993
# Parent  7ff725a068b010c4d1c4d17b3948d89cd5967f16


Secondly the whole above header must go away from the
emails sent by patchbomb.

After fixing those two problems, the mqueue+patchbomb combination
should be usable to submit patches for merging on lkml.

Let me know if this change is possible otherwise I'll have to consider
if it's simpler to do it myself or I'll have change development
framework but I'd be sad as mqueue+patchbomb is so much better than
git and gives more peace of mind than stgit.

Thanks,
Andrea


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