On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:14:17 -0500 Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 01:05:26PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > On 12/28/2020 12:23 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:  
> > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 01:57:40PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:  
> > >>>> Konstantin, would you be willing to mod the kernel.org instance of
> > >>>> patchwork to populate Fixes tags in the generated mboxes?  
> > >>>
> > >>> I'd really rather not -- we try not to diverge from project upstream if 
> > >>> at all
> > >>> possible, as this dramatically complicates upgrades.  
> > >>
> > >> Well that is really unfortunate then because the Linux developer
> > >> community settled on using the Fixes: tag for years now and having
> > >> patchwork automatically append those tags would greatly help 
> > >> maintainers.  
> > > 
> > > I agree -- but this is something that needs to be implemented upstream.
> > > Picking up a one-off patch just for patchwork.kernel.org is not the right 
> > > way
> > > to go about this.  
> > 
> > You should be able to tune this from the patchwork administrative
> > interface and add new tags there, would not that be acceptable?  
> 
> Oh, oops, I got confused by the mention of a rejected upstream patch -- I
> didn't realize that this is already possible with a configuration setting.
> 
> Sure, I added a match for ^Fixes: -- let me know if it's not doing the right
> thing.

I used this one for a test:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/1609312994-121032-1-git-send-email-abaci-bug...@linux.alibaba.com/

I'm not getting the Fixes tag when I download the mbox.

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