From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/PCI: Fix a potential regression when use dmi_get_bios_year()
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:34:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180320193406.3d76d4f1@endymion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1803201746450.1567@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:47:41 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 16:32 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > When fixing a regression, a good practice is to tag the fix commit as
> > > such:
> > >
> > > Fixes: 69c42d493db4 ("x86/pci: Simplify code by using the new
> > > dmi_get_bios_year() helper")
> >
> > Someone (perhaps Ingo) told me that Fixes doesn't make much sense if the
> > fixing commit is not yet in vanilla.
>
> No. If the commit is already queued for the next merge window then a fixes
> tag is appropriate.
+1
Even if it won't be used for stable branches, it's still valuable for
distribution kernel maintainers to find out the fixes to patches they
backport.
Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-20 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-20 13:54 [PATCH v3 0/2] x86, dmi: Uninline dmi_get_bios_year() Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-20 13:54 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/PCI: Fix a potential regression when use dmi_get_bios_year() Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-20 15:32 ` Jean Delvare
2018-03-20 15:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-20 16:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-20 17:18 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-20 18:34 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2018-03-20 16:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-03-20 13:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] firmware: dmi_scan: Uninline dmi_get_bios_year() helper Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-20 15:44 ` Jean Delvare
2018-03-20 16:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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