netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] net: dlink: fix multicast stats being counted incorrectly

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Message-ID: <72b73eef-4b12-453e-96d2-beacbdac8525@lunn.ch>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:21:39 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Yeounsu Moon <yyyynoom@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: dlink: fix multicast stats being counted
 incorrectly

> Regarding the Fixes: tag, I have one question. You suggested
> 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2"), which is indeed the first commit in
> the current git history. However, the actual code change seems to go
> back further, and I found it in the history.git repository.
> 
> In such cases, should the Fixes: tag refer to the first commit in the
> mailine git tree, or to the actual commit in history.git where the bug
> originated?

Nobody except historians care about history.git. In practice, nobody
cares about 2.6 either. https://www.kernel.org/ shows that v5.4 is the
oldest supported kernel. But Linux-2.6.12-rc2 is a convenient
reference point, so that is what is used when it has always been
broken in the git era.

	Andrew