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Date:   Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:24:49 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>
Cc:     Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: tag_ksz: KSZ8795 and KSZ9477 also use tail
 tags

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:16:03PM +0200, Christian Eggers wrote:
> I added it manually because the commit ID is not from Linus' tree. Is there any
> value using Fixes tags with id's from other trees?

Yes, that's what "git merge" does, it keeps sha1sums.
You should check out "git log --oneline --graph --decorate" some time.
Every maintainer's history is linear, and so is Linus's.