netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: tag_ksz: KSZ8795 and KSZ9477 also use tail tags

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Message-ID: <20201019173633.5af4ab24@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:36:33 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>,
        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>, 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, 16 Oct 2020 20:24:49 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> 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.

One thing to add is that we never rebase net or net-next trees
(some maintainers would do that occasionally).

Applied, thanks everyone!