linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] Documentation/process: Add tip tree handbook

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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 18:24:20 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, acme@...hat.com,
        frederic@...nel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] Documentation/process: Add tip tree handbook

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:19:33AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> I know at least StGit mail does not grok that "#"notation. I've
> stopped using it in favor of a "Fixes:" tag. I would think "Fixes:" is
> preferred over "# <KVER>" if only because it can be used to track
> fixes to commits that have been backported to stable.

Yeah, FWIW, we do that for our SLES kernels.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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