Re: [PATCH v1] wifi: ath9k: Fix typo

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:27:56PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> On 2026-02-24T10:45:02-0800, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > On 2/23/2026 7:17 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> > > Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:
> > > 
> > >> This only worked by chance, because all callers of this macro used the
> > >> same identifiers that were expected by the macro.
> > >>
> > >> 	$ grep -rn ath_for_each_chanctx
> > >> 	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:1576:	ath_for_each_chanctx(sc, ctx)
> > >> 	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:2554:	ath_for_each_chanctx(sc, ctx) {
> > >> 	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/channel.c:165:	ath_for_each_chanctx(sc, ctx) {
> > >> 	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/channel.c:291:	ath_for_each_chanctx(sc, ctx) {
> > >> 	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/channel.c:861:	ath_for_each_chanctx(sc, ctx) {
> > >> 	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c:717:	ath_for_each_chanctx(sc, ctx) {
> > >> 	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h:446:#define ath_for_each_chanctx(_sc, _ctx)                               \
> > >>
> > >> Fixes: c4dc0d040e35 (2014-06-19; "ath9k: Fetch appropriate operating channel context")
> > 
> > I'm dropping the Fixes tag since the existing code actually works and hence
> > there is no need to backport to LTS kernels.
> 
> Sounds reasonable.  Alternatively, a line next to it saying
> 
> 	[Do not backport]
> 
> would work, I guess.
> 
> Greg, I've seen this situation already a few times.  A Fixes tag getting
> removed to avoid triggering a stable backport.  But I think keeping the
> Fixes tag could be useful.  Should we have a standard way to document
> that a patch fixes an old commit without meaning that it should be
> backported?  Maybe something like this?:
> 
> 	[Do not backport to stable]
> 	Fixes: ...

As per the in-kernel documentation file
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

	There furthermore is a variant of the stable tag you can use to make the stable
	team's backporting tools (e.g AUTOSEL or scripts that look for commits
	containing a 'Fixes:' tag) ignore a change::

	     Cc: <stable+noautosel@kernel.org> # reason goes here, and must be present

So I think it is documented already :)

thanks,

greg k-h