On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 01:54:39PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The selftests are shipped as part of the kernel source and frequently > > used for testing the kernel, it's all one source base and we want to > > ensure that for example the test fix gets backported if the relevant > > kernel patch does. > That's not what Fixes: describes. If you want to invent a new tag that > expresses a dependency, do that. Don't use these tags to misrepresent > what the patches does. No, this isn't a new use - a Fixes: tag indicates that the referenced commit introduced the problem being fixed and that is exactly what's going on here. Like I say the selftests are not a completely separate project, they are a part of the same source release as the rest of the kernel and it is helpful to track information like this.
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