On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 9:34 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Finn,
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 1:45 AM Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Fixes: d839bae4269aea46 ("locking,arch,m68k: Fold atomic_ops")
...
Technically, the issue was present before, but I doubt adding pre-v3.18
Fixes tags would make any difference for stable...
There is a better way to constrain backporting, that is Cc:
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.12+
I don't want to constrain backporting.
I would recommend adding the plain
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
line to the footer to make it unambiguous that you want it backported then,
plus moving the explanation above the --- line. You can never be too explicit
with those.
Arnd
