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    SubjectRe: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches
    On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 12:02:47AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    > So the way I use headers today is:
    > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    > Fixes: sha1hash "commit subject"

    And that makes my life _so_ much easier. The Fixes: tag is great
    (thanks James!), I have scripts that I use to track if a fix was applied
    to a stable tree to know if it needs to go into that branch as well.
    Without that, the "# 4.9" marking just doesn't work, as it doesn't tell
    me if that commit got backported to 4.4.y as well. I used to do that
    type of detection by hand, but automating it is so much better and I
    miss less patches that way.

    Anyway, just my two cents, let's try to keep this simple for both
    maintainers, and stable developers, if at all possible. I think what we
    have now works well, but if people think the documentation should be
    cleaned up, great, send patches :)

    thanks,

    greg k-h

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