linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the printk tree

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:22:57 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the printk tree

On (20/07/28 08:19), Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:13:44 +0206 John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-07-27, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
[..]
> > > Maybe you meant
> > >
> > > Fixes: 896fbe20b4e2 ("printk: use the lockless ringbuffer")  
> >
> > Yes, sorry. I did not think linux-next SHA1 hashes were used in commit
> > logs.

Neither did I. The tag made sense to me, because it fixes a regression
after all.

> Well, it makes sense to use them if they are stable (i.e. the tree they
> are in does not rebase) which, by this part of the cycle, I would
> *hope* would be true (but sometimes isn't :-().

So we probably should not have Fixes tags in linux-next commits
(printk rework branch) then, for the time being. I'll keep an eye
on that.

	-ss