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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] nfsd: fix check of statid returned from call to find_stateid_by_type
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 03:53:36PM +0000, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Fixes tags are used for a lot of different things:
> > 1) If there is a fixes tag, then you can tell it does *NOT* have to
> > be back ported because the original commit is not in the stable
> > tree. It saves time for the stable maintainers.
> > 2) Metrics to figure out how quickly we are fixing bugs.
> > 3) Sometimes the Fixes tag helps because we want to review the original
> > patch to see what the intent was.
> >
> > All sorts of stuff. Etc.
>
> Yep, I'm a fan of all that. I just want to avoid poking the stable
> automation bear when it's unnecessary.

I've routinely had patches with Fixes: lines referencing other queued-up
patches, and I didn't get any stable mail about it.

100% not something to worry about.

--b.

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