From: Larry Finger Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 04:28:30 GMT Subject: Re: Formatting problem send_mail in version 2.10.0 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 10/11/2016 11:18 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Larry Finger writes: > >> That added information at the end is intended to be passed on to the >> stable group. In this case, the patch needs to be applied to kernel >> versions 4.8 and later. > > OK, but where do people fetch this information from? This format is used in a patch for the kernel. When the patch is merged into mainline, stable@vger.kernel.org gets sent an E-mail with a copy of the original patch. Maintainers of the indicated systems then merge the patch with their stable version. > > When you use git send-email, the content of the Cc: trailers ends up > both in the body of the message and in the Cc: field of the same > message. > > If you need the mention to appear in the body of the message, then using > parenthesis is fine: git send-email won't remove it (more precisely, > "send-email" will call "format-patch" which won't remove it). > > Not an objection to patching send-email anyway, but if there's a simple > and RFC-compliant way to do what you're looking for, we can as well use > it (possibly in addition to patching). I do not want it in the body of the message. I just want to pass a hint to the stable maintainer(s). As noted earlier, this has worked for a very long time, and I think the previous behavior should be restored. Larry >