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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tags need some work in the printk tree
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 11:48:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903091436.GA5012@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200903065547.0cc6f53b@canb.auug.org.au>

On Thu 2020-09-03 06:55:47, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Petr,
> 
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 09:26:11 +0200 Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The problem is that this commit is not in mainline. It is living
> > only in printk/linux.git.
> > 
> > Could we use the SHA1 from the maintainer tree when it would not get rebased?
> > 
> > Or should we rather avoid Fixes: tag referencing commits that are not
> > in mainline?
> > 
> > I am sorry to bother you with this silly question. I do not see any
> > hint in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.
> 
> Well, in theory, maintainers trees should not be rebased after they
> have been published (except in exceptional circumstances), so using
> SHA1s from them should be OK.  Especially if the fixing commit is in
> the same maintainers tree (which it should be, right).  It does mean
> that maintainers need to be a bit more careful if they do rebase their
> trees to update any Fixes tags (or other commit references) that are
> affected by the rebase.

Thanks a lot for info.

I have rebased the last 5 commits in the printk-rework branch and
added the missing SHAs there.

Best Regards,
Petr

      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-03  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-01 21:22 linux-next: Fixes tags need some work in the printk tree Stephen Rothwell
2020-09-02  7:26 ` Petr Mladek
2020-09-02 20:55   ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-09-03  9:48     ` Petr Mladek [this message]

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