Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:06:55 -0500
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:

> The one question I have is for patches which pre-date git.  I was told
> to leave the Fixes tag off in that case, but I think that's out of date.
> It's more useful to say "Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")".

That commit is the most common Fixes tag in the git history:

$ git log | grep '^    Fixes:' | cut -d' ' -f6 | perl -e 'while (<>) { chomp; $cnt{$_}++ } foreach $c (sort { $cnt{$a} < $cnt{$b} } keys %cnt) { print "$c $cnt{$c}\n"; }' | head
1da177e4c3f4 528
76ad4f0ee747 40
e1eaea46bb40 39
9cb837480424 20
9af6bcb11e12 14
99cb0dbd47a1 11
848440544b41 9
f91696f2f053 8
89d44f0a6c73 7
4ed8eb6570a4 6

-- Steve