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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>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tags need some work in the printk tree
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 09:26:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200902072610.GA9496@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200902072254.3054db47@canb.auug.org.au>

Hi Stephen,

On Wed 2020-09-02 07:22:54, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In commits
> 
>   e5e4c07d9233 ("docs: vmcoreinfo: add lockless printk ringbuffer vmcoreinfo")
>   0cfdacd74ad5 ("scripts/gdb: update for lockless printk ringbuffer")
> 
> Fixes tag
> 
>   Fixes: ("printk: use the lockless ringbuffer")

The problem is that this commit is not in mainline. It is living
only in printk/linux.git.

> 
> has these problem(s):
> 
>   - No SHA1 recognised

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.

Best Regards,
Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-02  7:26 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 [this message]
2020-09-02 20:55   ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-09-03  9:48     ` Petr Mladek

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