Re: history damage in linux.git

From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Date: Apr 21, 2016, 12:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20160421123251.GA3186@aepfle.de>
In-Reply-To: <vpqmvonw4a6.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Thu, Apr 21, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> My guess is that this commit has been sitting for a long time in a
> repo outside Linus' linux.git, and got merged only recently.

Thats what it looks like. And thats what I'm complaining about. But in fact that file is there since v3.13-rc7 (if the tag is really correct in my patch file), since at least end of 2014.

And after some checking its in linux-3.13-rc1 from 2013-11-22, which indicates that such damage has already happend earlier. At least I have a record from Nov 2014 for the patch file. There is a slim chance that I tweaked that particular tag menually in the patch file.

This is a list of changed tags in my patch collection:

 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:50:42 -0700
-Patch-mainline: v3.13-rc7
+Patch-mainline: v4.6-rc1
 Subject: Input: add a driver to support Hyper-V synthetic keyboard
 Git-commit: aed06b9cfcabf8644ac5f6f108c0b3d01522f88b

 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:09:14 -0800
-Patch-mainline: v3.14
+Patch-mainline: v4.6-rc1
 Subject: Input: hyperv-keyboard - pass through 0xE1 prefix
 Git-commit: c3c4d99485ea51cd354ed3cd955a8310703456b6

 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:33:54 -0700
-Patch-mainline: v3.17-rc1
+Patch-mainline: v4.6-rc1
 Subject: Input: hyperv-keyboard - register as a wakeup source
 Git-commit: 62238f3aadc9bc56da70100e19ec61b9f8d72a5f

 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:22:13 +0300
-Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc1
+Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc2
 Subject: drivers/hv: replace enum hv_message_type by u32
 Git-commit: 7797dcf63f11b6e1d34822daf2317223d0f4ad46

 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:22:14 +0300
-Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc1
+Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc2
 Subject: drivers/hv: Move HV_SYNIC_STIMER_COUNT into Hyper-V UAPI x86 header
 Git-commit: 4f39bcfd1c132522380138a323f9af7902766301

 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:22:15 +0300
-Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc1
+Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc2
 Subject: drivers/hv: Move struct hv_message into UAPI Hyper-V x86 header
 Git-commit: 5b423efe11e822e092e8c911a6bad17eadf718eb

 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:22:16 +0300
-Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc1
+Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc2
 Subject: drivers/hv: Move struct hv_timer_message_payload into UAPI Hyper-V x86 header
 Git-commit: c71acc4c74dddebbbbeede69fdd4f0b1a124f9df

 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:22:21 +0300
-Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc1
+Patch-mainline: v4.5-rc2
 Subject: kvm/x86: Hyper-V SynIC timers
 Git-commit: 1f4b34f825e8cef6f493d06b46605384785b3d16

 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:45:02 +0800
-Patch-mainline: v4.6-rc1
+Patch-mainline: v4.6-rc2
 Subject: x86/cpu: Convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...) to pr_<level>(...)
 Git-commit: 1b74dde7c47c19a73ea3e9fac95ac27b5d3d50c5

Olaf