Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 May 2023 10:56:46 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/370] 5.15.111-rc2 review |
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Hi Linus,
On Wed, 10 May 2023 18:09:35 -0500 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:58 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > Thanks! Turns out someone put the wrong "Fixes:" tag in that commit > > which is why I missed it. > > Hmm. Presumably the real commit ceeadb83aea2 at some point got > rebased, and had had that other mentioned SHA1 before that. > > It might be a good idea in general - not just for stable - if we had > some automation that said "this refers to a commit ID that doesn't > exist".
In linux-next, I report various problems with Fixes tags including when the SHA1 doesn't exist (or is not reachable from the fixing commit. Sometimes they are corrected, sometimes not (especially if it is a non rebasing branch).
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |