On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 03:53:36PM +0000, Chuck Lever wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fixes tags are used for a lot of different things: > > 1) If there is a fixes tag, then you can tell it does *NOT* have to > > be back ported because the original commit is not in the stable > > tree. It saves time for the stable maintainers. > > 2) Metrics to figure out how quickly we are fixing bugs. > > 3) Sometimes the Fixes tag helps because we want to review the original > > patch to see what the intent was. > > > > All sorts of stuff. Etc. > > Yep, I'm a fan of all that. I just want to avoid poking the stable > automation bear when it's unnecessary. I've routinely had patches with Fixes: lines referencing other queued-up patches, and I didn't get any stable mail about it. 100% not something to worry about. --b.
