linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: ipa: GSI interrupt updates

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Message-ID: <20210115105908.64cfabeb@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:59:08 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        evgreen@...omium.org, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        cpratapa@...eaurora.org, subashab@...eaurora.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: ipa: GSI interrupt updates

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 04:42:14 -0600 Alex Elder wrote:
> On 1/14/21 8:08 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Dropped the fixes tags (since its not a series of fixes) and applied.  
> 
> Thanks for applying these.
> 
> Do you only want "Fixes" tags on patches posted for the net
> branch (and not net-next)?
> 
> I think I might have debated sending these as bug fixes but
> decided they weren't serious enough to warrant that.  Anyway
> if I know it's important to *not* use that tag I can avoid
> including it.

The point of the tag is to facilitate backporting. If something is
important enough to back port is should also be important enough 
to go to net, no?