From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.15 60/66] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:14:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140704221425.566407832@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140704221422.813435485@linuxfoundation.org>
3.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
commit 8401aa1f59975c03eeebd3ac6d264cbdfe9af5de upstream.
Update the SubmittingPatches process to include howto about the new
'Fixes:' tag to be used when a patch fixes an issue in a previous commit
(found by git-bisect for example).
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -132,6 +132,20 @@ Example:
platform_set_drvdata(), but left the variable "dev" unused,
delete it.
+If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using
+git-bisect, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of the
+SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary.
+Example:
+
+ Fixes: e21d2170f366 ("video: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()")
+
+The following git-config settings can be used to add a pretty format for
+outputting the above style in the git log or git show commands
+
+ [core]
+ abbrev = 12
+ [pretty]
+ fixes = Fixes: %h (\"%s\")
3) Separate your changes.
@@ -443,7 +457,7 @@ person it names. This tag documents tha
have been included in the discussion
-14) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by: and Suggested-by:
+14) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes:
If this patch fixes a problem reported by somebody else, consider adding a
Reported-by: tag to credit the reporter for their contribution. Please
@@ -498,6 +512,12 @@ idea was not posted in a public forum. T
idea reporters, they will, hopefully, be inspired to help us again in the
future.
+A Fixes: tag indicates that the patch fixes an issue in a previous commit. It
+is used to make it easy to determine where a bug originated, which can help
+review a bug fix. This tag also assists the stable kernel team in determining
+which stable kernel versions should receive your fix. This is the preferred
+method for indicating a bug fixed by the patch. See #2 above for more details.
+
15) The canonical patch format
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2014-07-04 22:13 [PATCH 3.15 00/66] 3.15.4-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 01/66] target: Fix left-over se_lun->lun_sep pointer OOPs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 02/66] iscsi-target: Avoid rejecting incorrect ITT for Data-Out Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 03/66] iscsi-target: Explicily clear login response PDU in exception path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 04/66] iscsi-target: fix iscsit_del_np deadlock on unload Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 05/66] Input: synaptics - fix resolution for manually provided min/max Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 06/66] Input: elantech - deal with clickpads reporting right button events Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 07/66] Input: elantech - dont set bit 1 of reg_10 when the no_hw_res quirk is set Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 08/66] PCI: Add new ID for Intel GPU "spurious interrupt" quirk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 09/66] PCI: Fix incorrect vgaarb conditional in WARN_ON() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 10/66] mtip32xx: Fix ERO and NoSnoop values in PCIe upstream on AMD systems Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 11/66] mtip32xx: Increase timeout for STANDBY IMMEDIATE command Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 12/66] mtip32xx: Remove dfs_parent after pci unregister Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 13/66] recordmcount/MIPS: Fix possible incorrect mcount_loc table entries in modules Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 14/66] Revert "MIPS: Save/restore MSA context around signals" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 15/66] MIPS: MSC: Prevent out-of-bounds writes to MIPS SC ioremapd region Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 16/66] hpsa: add new Smart Array PCI IDs (May 2014) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 17/66] UBIFS: fix an mmap and fsync race condition Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 18/66] UBIFS: Remove incorrect assertion in shrink_tnc() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 19/66] RDMA/cxgb4: Fix memory leaks in c4iw_alloc() error paths Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 20/66] RDMA/cxgb4: Add missing padding at end of struct c4iw_create_cq_resp Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 21/66] RDMA/cxgb4: add missing padding at end of struct c4iw_alloc_ucontext_resp Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 22/66] watchdog: sp805: Set watchdog_device->timeout from ->set_timeout() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 23/66] watchdog: ath79_wdt: avoid spurious restarts on AR934x Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 24/66] watchdog: kempld-wdt: Use the correct value when configuring the prescaler with the watchdog Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 25/66] kernel/watchdog.c: remove preemption restrictions when restarting lockup detector Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 26/66] IB/mlx5: add missing padding at end of struct mlx5_ib_create_cq Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 27/66] IB/mlx5: add missing padding at end of struct mlx5_ib_create_srq Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 28/66] IB/qib: Fix port in pkey change event Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 29/66] IB/ipath: Translate legacy diagpkt into newer extended diagpkt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 30/66] IB/srp: Fix a sporadic crash triggered by cable pulling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 31/66] IB/umad: Fix error handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 32/66] IB/umad: Fix use-after-free on close Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 33/66] SUNRPC: Fix a module reference leak in svc_handle_xprt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 34/66] pNFS: Handle allocation errors correctly in filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 35/66] nfsd4: fix FREE_STATEID lockowner leak Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 36/66] nfsd: getattr for FATTR4_WORD0_FILES_AVAIL needs the statfs buffer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 37/66] NFS: Dont declare inode uptodate unless all attributes were checked Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 38/66] NFS: Use raw_write_seqcount_begin/end int nfs4_reclaim_open_state Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 39/66] NFS: populate ->net in mount data when remounting Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 40/66] nfs: Fix cache_validity check in nfs_write_pageuptodate() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 41/66] powerpc/pseries: Fix overwritten PE state Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 42/66] powernv: Fix permissions on sysparam sysfs entries Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 43/66] powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 44/66] powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 45/66] powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 46/66] powerpc: fix typo CONFIG_PMAC Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 47/66] powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared on fork() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 48/66] powerpc: fix typo CONFIG_PPC_CPU Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 49/66] powerpc: Dont setup CPUs with bad status Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 50/66] powerpc: Add AT_HWCAP2 to indicate V.CRYPTO category support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 51/66] powerpc: Dont skip ePAPR spin-table CPUs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 52/66] xfs: xfs_readsb needs to check for magic numbers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 53/66] reiserfs: call truncate_setsize under tailpack mutex Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 54/66] cpufreq: ppc-corenet-cpu-freq: do_div use quotient Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 55/66] cpufreq: unlock when failing cpufreq_update_policy() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 56/66] MIPS: KVM: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 57/66] MIPS: KVM: Fix memory leak on VCPU Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 58/66] ptrace,x86: force IRET path after a ptrace_stop() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` [PATCH 3.15 59/66] lz4: add overrun checks to lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-07-04 22:15 ` [PATCH 3.15 61/66] tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:15 ` [PATCH 3.15 62/66] tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:15 ` [PATCH 3.15 63/66] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix races at disconnection and PCM closing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:15 ` [PATCH 3.15 64/66] ALSA: hda - hdmi: call overridden init on resume Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:15 ` [PATCH 3.15 65/66] ALSA: hda - Adjust speaker HPF and add LED support for HP Spectre 13 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04 22:15 ` [PATCH 3.15 66/66] ALSA: hda - restore BCLK M/N values when resuming HSW/BDW display controller Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-05 5:48 ` [PATCH 3.15 00/66] 3.15.4-stable review Guenter Roeck
2014-07-05 6:52 ` Satoru Takeuchi
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