On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Michael Schmitz wrote: > >> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.14 > > > > 5.14+ ? But I do not think you need to specify anything anyway since > > you have the Fixes tag. > > 5.14+ perhaps. I'll check the docs again to see whether Fixes: obsoletes > the stable backport tag. I've so far used both together... > You'd specify a "# x.y+" limit along with a "Fixes" tag if you don't want to backport as far back as the buggy commit (because some other pre-requisite isn't present on the older branches). But that does not apply in this case. Writing "# 5.14" is surprising because (according to www.kernel.org landing page) that branch was abandoned, and no live branch was named. But in "git log" you can see that people write this anyway. Writing "# 5.14+" or "# 5.15+" is clear enough but is normally omitted when it can be inferred from the Fixes tag. That's been my experience, at least.
