Hi Jeff, Greg,

On 2026-02-24T15:09:05-0800, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >> I don't know where I keep the patch, so I'd have to apply it from the
> >> email to resend.  Could you amend it yourself?
> > 
> > sure, I'll amend the patch in my pending branch

Thanks!

> I've also updated the Fixes tag to meet the expected format...
> Fixes: c4dc0d040e35 ("ath9k: Fetch appropriate operating channel context")

Greg, I CCed you in the man-pages thread where I discussed adding the
commit date to the Fixes tags.  I was interested in your opinion, and
also think this could be useful in the kernel.

<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/3a656e90329f26d743d0904f56ae847951c852c7.1770150003.git.alx@kernel.org/>

Do you have any opinion about this?  Should I send a mail to some kernel
mailing list to propose its use in the kernel?

The format I used is documented in the Linux man-pages here:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING.d/patches/trailer#n16>

    Fixes
	Add 'Fixes:' tags as necessary.  'Fixes:' trailer fields should
	have the following format.

		Fixes: 12-char-hash ([author-date,] commit-date; "subject")

	where the author date is optional, and only included if it's
	somehow important.  The commit date is often more important, as
	it's sorted, and thus can be used to find (with a binary search)
	a commit whose hash and subject may have collisions.  For
	example:

		Fixes: bb509e6fcbae (2020-10-16; "kernel_lockdown.7: New page documenting the Kernel Lockdown feature")

	See <CONTRIBUTING.d/git> for how to configure the alias.ref and
	alias.ref2 git aliases.  The commit references can be produced
	with them.

		$ git ref bb509e6fc
		bb509e6fcbae (2020-10-16; "kernel_lockdown.7: New page documenting the Kernel Lockdown feature")

and here:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING.d/git#n46>

    alias.ref, alias.ref2
	To produce git commit references, the following git aliases are
	useful.

		$ git config --global alias.ref \
			"show -s --format=tformat:'%C(auto)%h (%cs%x3B \"%s\")%C(reset)'"
		$ git config --global alias.ref2 \
			"show -s --format=tformat:'%C(auto)%h (%as, %cs%x3B \"%s\")%C(reset)'"

    core.abbrev
	Use 12 characters in abbreviated hashes.

		$ git config --global core.abbrev 12

The Fixes tag I used in this particular patch was

Fixes: c4dc0d040e35 (2014-06-19; "ath9k: Fetch appropriate operating channel context")


Have a lovely night!
Alex

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