netdev - Re: [RFC net] bnx2x: fix built-in kernel driver load failure

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Date:   Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:40:17 +0100
From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>,
        Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>
Cc:     buczek@...gen.mpg.de, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        aelior@...vell.com, it+netdev@...gen.mpg.de,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [RFC net] bnx2x: fix built-in kernel driver load failure

On 16.03.22 18:09, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am 16.03.22 um 12:18 schrieb Manish Chopra:
>> Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
>> Fixes: b7a49f73059f ("bnx2x: Utilize firmware 7.13.21.0")
> 
> The regzbot also asks to add the tag below [1].
> 
> Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/46f2d9d9-ae7f-b332-ddeb-b59802be2bab@molgen.mpg.de

For the record: yes, regzbot needs them, but it something old. IOW:
developers should be setting them for years now and quite a few do so,
but some do not. The docs recently got changed to make this aspect
clearer. See 'Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst' and
'Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst' for details:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/5.Posting.html

Ciao, Thorsten