On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 09:41:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:33:09 -0400 Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 04:42:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
I think the most important use for Fixes: is to tell the -stable maintainers which kernel version(s) we believe should receive the patch. So listing multiple Fixes: targets just causes confusion.
Right - there's no way of communicating if all the commits listed in multiple Fixes tags should exist in the tree, or any one of them, for the new fix to be applicable.
So what should we do in this situation?
For us, ideally point to the oldest commit fixed by the new commit with a Fixes: tag, and then a note along with the stable tag if this is a more complex scenario that we need to consider.