On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:47:41 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 16:32 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > 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.
+1
Even if it won't be used for stable branches, it's still valuable for
distribution kernel maintainers to find out the fixes to patches they
backport.
Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
