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[209.85.217.43]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 71dfb90a1353d-56a9228d776sm1614870e0c.18.2026.02.25.23.57.45 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:57:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-vs1-f43.google.com with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-5ff09bb668cso348501137.0 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:57:45 -0800 (PST) X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCWuill6Xf8WW7h/Vyp4fLamT1Ck6Zc4kmZr1Liqd28zjePtI2wmJ4FkcapwaU+ZlUw5g3q/D1yR3og=@vger.kernel.org X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:510e:b0:5fd:fa9b:1a2 with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-5feb30d4af4mr10289856137.28.1772092222850; Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:50:22 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2026022531-tightness-rare-6a14@gregkh> In-Reply-To: From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:50:11 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-Gm-Features: AaiRm51mZ3TMr9-1T3RZtvPkGB-I32VB6CDd1n0kyHAM014BC7DctANFpncyC8Y Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add short author date to Fixes tag To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Steven Rostedt , Mark Brown , Sasha Levin , Jacob Keller , Yeking@red54.com, kuba@kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , "Theodore Ts'o" , Andy Whitcroft , Joe Perches , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Andrew Morton , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev, Andrew Lunn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Alejandro, On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 19:20, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > The case where it would matter is if you commit a fix for a commit that > is only in your stable branch. However, since the stable branches are > not real branches, but actually a set of patches, I expect you would > just drop the faulty patch, right? Stable branches are real branches, cfr. https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/refs/heads. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds