Hi Luis, On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:14:20 +0000 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Fixes: "firmware_loader: remove unused exports" > > > > Can't help but notice this strange form of the Fixes tag, is it > > intentional? > > Yeah, no there is no commit for the patch as the commit is ephemeral in > a development tree not yet upstream, ie, not on Linus' tree yet. Using a > commit here then makes no sense unless one wants to use a reference > development tree in this case, as development trees are expected to > rebase to move closer towards Linus' tree. When a tree rebases, the > commit IDs change, and this is why the commit is ephemeral unless > one uses a base tree / branch / tag. That commit is in Greg's driver-core tree which never rebases, so the SHA1 can be considered immutable. This is (should be) true for most trees that are published in linux-next (I know it is not true for some). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell
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