Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/PCI: Fix a potential regression when use dmi_get_bios_year()

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 16:32 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:54:09 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > dmi_get_bios_year() may return 0 when it is incapable to parse
> > > the BIOS date string. Previously this has been checked in
> > > pci_acpi_crs_quirks().
> > > 
> > > Update the code to restore old behaviour.
> > 
> > When fixing a regression, a good practice is to tag the fix commit as
> > such:
> > 
> > Fixes: 69c42d493db4 ("x86/pci: Simplify code by using the new
> > dmi_get_bios_year() helper")
> 
> Someone (perhaps Ingo) told me that Fixes doesn't make much sense if the
> fixing commit is not yet in vanilla.

No. If the commit is already queued for the next merge window then a fixes
tag is appropriate.

Thanks,

	tglx



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