netdev - Re: [PATCH next] ipvlan: Fix failure path in dev registration during link creation

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:57:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc:	maheshb@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] ipvlan: Fix failure path in dev registration
 during link creation

From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:37:39 -0700

> While fixing this issue I noticed another issue of missing unregister
> in case of failure, so adding it to the fix which is similar to the
> macvlan fix by Francesco in SHA1:308379607548524b8d86dbf20134681024935e0b

This is not the correct way to refer to commits.

You should specify, exactly, 12 digits of the SHA1 value, followed by
a space, followed by the header line text of that commit contained in
parenthesis and double quotes, like how Fixes: tags specify commits.