On Monday, February 5, 2018 5:12:02 PM CET Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 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.
They may mislead people to belive that the patch needs to be backported,
so I'd rather not add them.
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