netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] rds: ib: Remove unused extern definition

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Message-ID: <20250904184548.GK372207@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 19:45:48 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Haakon Bugge <haakon.bugge@...cle.com>,
	Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	OFED mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	"rds-devel@....oracle.com" <rds-devel@....oracle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] rds: ib: Remove unused extern definition

On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 07:33:43AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:22:02 +0000 Haakon Bugge wrote:
> > Sorry if I have mis-interpreted the collateral. From [1], I quote:
> > 
> > "A Fixes: tag indicates that the patch fixes an issue in a previous
> > commit." As such, it is an "issue" and I reference the offending
> > commit.
> 
> You're not the first one to misinterpret it, I guess we should fix the
> doc :$

+1

FTR, a fix implies a bug. And a good rule of thumb that a bug
is something broken that is user-visible. E.g. a system panic.

> 
> > As to "Cc: stable", you're quite right. My bad. You want a v3 or are
> > you (and stable) able to handle it?
> 
> Please repost this one without the extra tags, and if you want it to go
> via netdev the subject tag should be net-next in this case (it will end
> up in 6.18)