Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the mm tree

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On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:04 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:47:51 -0700 "Zach O'Keefe" <zokeefe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Apologies here.  Yes, the correct Fixes tag should be, based off latest
> > mm-unstable,
> >
> > Fixes: 8d88fef0b3d8 ("selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing")
> >
> > Now, I'm quite confused as to has this happened as I've been generating
> > citations using something similar to the --format string you reference, but
> > perhaps this time I chose to do it manually and messed it up.  Anyways, will
> > write something to catch these mistakes in the future.
>
> The hashes in mm-unstable change every day.
>
> Doesn't matter, I'll queue fixes against mm-unstable's foo.patch as
> foo-fix.patch and I'll squash foo-fix.patch into foo.patch before
> moving f.patch into mm-stable.
>

Roger that, thanks Andrew.

> > Andrew, there are a few changes incoming to the "mm: add file/shmem support to
> > MADV_COLLAPSE" series based off recent reviews (including another patch with
> > a commit description change).  Perhaps it's easier for me to send a new (v4)
> > series to mm-unstable to address these?  Otherwise, I'm not sure how to
> > request these metadata changes.
>
> As described above, the metadata gets fixed at this end.  mm-unstable
> is called "unstable" for a reason ;)
>
> But yes, I think a replacement series would be best in this case.

Sounds good, and hopefully I will have that out later today.

Best, and thanks for your help here,
Zach



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