netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: remove mac

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Message-ID: <20260114204843.e4pyfb64n5jn3wop@skbuf>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:48:43 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@....qualcomm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	Mohd Ayaan Anwar <mohd.anwar@....qualcomm.com>,
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: remove mac_base

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 05:45:14PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> Since the blamed commit, ethqos->mac_base is only written, never
> read. Let's remove it.
> 
> Fixes: 9b443e58a896 ("net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: remove MAC_CTRL_REG modification")
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> ---

I think we reserve the use of Fixes: tags for user-visible issues, not
cleanup of dangling variables. You can move the sha1sum and its commit
title in the main commit message body and delete that tag.