Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: tag_ksz: KSZ8795 and KSZ9477 also use tail tags

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Oct 19 2020 - 20:36:42 EST


On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:24:49 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:16:03PM +0200, Christian Eggers wrote:
> > I added it manually because the commit ID is not from Linus' tree. Is there any
> > value using Fixes tags with id's from other trees?
>
> Yes, that's what "git merge" does, it keeps sha1sums.
> You should check out "git log --oneline --graph --decorate" some time.
> Every maintainer's history is linear, and so is Linus's.

One thing to add is that we never rebase net or net-next trees
(some maintainers would do that occasionally).

Applied, thanks everyone!