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charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2d787d2e12b336f94afe5549cbfef4e1e20d9a7f.camel@HansenPartnership.com> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 03:24:42PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 14:06 -0500, Dan Carpenter 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")". > > Actually, we have a history tree (based on Bitkeeper) that goes back > before that: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/ > > So I'd tag these as > > Fixes: 3bc0a5f5c1 (history "ext3: reservation info cleanup") I don't think most people have the ancient history so would just confuse people and break scripts. regards, dan carpenter