Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/PCI: Fix a potential regression when use dmi_get_bios_year()

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:47:41 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 16:32 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:  
> > > When fixing a regression, a good practice is to tag the fix commit as
> > > such:
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 69c42d493db4 ("x86/pci: Simplify code by using the new
> > > dmi_get_bios_year() helper")  
> > 
> > Someone (perhaps Ingo) told me that Fixes doesn't make much sense if the
> > fixing commit is not yet in vanilla.  
> 
> No. If the commit is already queued for the next merge window then a fixes
> tag is appropriate.

+1

Even if it won't be used for stable branches, it's still valuable for
distribution kernel maintainers to find out the fixes to patches they
backport.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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