linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] crypto: talitos - move struct talitos

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:39:34 +0000
From:   Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@....com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] crypto: talitos - move struct talitos_edesc into
 talitos.h

On 6/13/2019 3:32 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 13/06/2019 à 14:24, Horia Geanta a écrit :
>> On 6/13/2019 3:16 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 13/06/2019 à 14:13, Horia Geanta a écrit :
>>>> On 6/11/2019 5:39 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>>> Next patch will require struct talitos_edesc to be defined
>>>>> earlier in talitos.c
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch moves it into talitos.h so that it can be used
>>>>> from any place in talitos.c
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 37b5e8897eb5 ("crypto: talitos - chain in buffered data for ahash on SEC1")
>>>>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
>>>> Again, this patch does not qualify as a fix.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But as I said, the following one is a fix and require that one, you told
>>> me to add stable in Cc: to make it explicit it was to go into stable.
>> Yes, but you should remove the Fixes tag.
>> And probably replace "Next patch" with the commit headline.
>>
>>> If someone tries to merge following one into stable with taking that one
>>> first, build will fail.
>> This shouldn't happen, order from main tree should be preserved.
>>
> 
> When they pick up fixes, AFAIK they don't take all the preceeding commits.
> 
This is not about Fixes tag, but Cc tag:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-1

Horia