17 Dec
2024
17 Dec
'24
1:54 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:12:12 +0000, Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org wrote:
[1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:30:37AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org wrote:
Fixes: 03c7527e97f7 ("KVM: arm64: Do not allow ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.ASIDbits to be overridden")
A patch for a test doesn't fix anything in the kernel.
The selftests are shipped as part of the kernel source and frequently used for testing the kernel, it's all one source base and we want to ensure that for example the test fix gets backported if the relevant kernel patch does.
That's not what Fixes: describes. If you want to invent a new tag that expresses a dependency, do that. Don't use these tags to misrepresent what the patches does.
M.
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