netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] mlxsw: Couple of fixes

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Message-ID: <20181004170523.GA8817@splinter>
Date:   Thu, 4 Oct 2018 20:05:23 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] mlxsw: Couple of fixes

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 09:56:54AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Series applied, and patch #2 queued up for -stable.
> 
> I was thinking about Fixes tags for the situation in patch #2 a bit,
> and it's probably best to list two Fixes tags.  One for the original
> bug that wasn't fixed properly, and one for the incomplete fix.
> 
> It's nice that you mentioned the incomplete fix in the commit message
> but a backporter might miss this chain of commits and dependencies it
> if it isn't in the Fixes: tags.

Noted. Will do so in future submissions.

Thanks, David.