On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 08:23 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Do the renaming to be consistent with its sibling, i.e.
> > of_device_get_match_data().
> >
> > No functional change.
> >
> > Fixes: 80212a162329 ("ACPI / bus: Introduce acpi_get_match_data()
> > function")
> > Fixes: 146b4dbb0eef ("ACPI: properties: Implement get_match_data()
> > callback")
>
> Why are you adding the Fixes: tags to a patch that doesn't make any
> functional changes?
>
> What are they useful for?
Because next patch depends on this one and fixes API.
So, here the Fixes tags to be sure that next will apply cleanly.
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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy
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