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| author | Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> | 2014-06-06 14:36:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-07-06 18:57:29 -0700 |
| commit | 097ccbebd9aa79940c714330195fa02dc237e728 (patch) | |
| tree | ecf52f32d23007b64e8da67c24c0055d0213d3d5 /Documentation | |
| parent | 780f1005c8e5513098f8f677bebc735107824920 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-097ccbebd9aa79940c714330195fa02dc237e728.tar.gz lwn-097ccbebd9aa79940c714330195fa02dc237e728.zip | |
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag
commit 8401aa1f59975c03eeebd3ac6d264cbdfe9af5de upstream.
Update the SubmittingPatches process to include howto about the new
'Fixes:' tag to be used when a patch fixes an issue in a previous commit
(found by git-bisect for example).
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 26b1e31d5a13..1ec219a14904 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -119,6 +119,20 @@ Example: platform_set_drvdata(), but left the variable "dev" unused, delete it. +If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using +git-bisect, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of the +SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary. +Example: + + Fixes: e21d2170f366 ("video: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()") + +The following git-config settings can be used to add a pretty format for +outputting the above style in the git log or git show commands + + [core] + abbrev = 12 + [pretty] + fixes = Fixes: %h (\"%s\") 3) Separate your changes. @@ -430,7 +444,7 @@ person it names. This tag documents that potentially interested parties have been included in the discussion -14) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by: and Suggested-by: +14) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes: If this patch fixes a problem reported by somebody else, consider adding a Reported-by: tag to credit the reporter for their contribution. Please @@ -485,6 +499,12 @@ idea was not posted in a public forum. That said, if we diligently credit our idea reporters, they will, hopefully, be inspired to help us again in the future. +A Fixes: tag indicates that the patch fixes an issue in a previous commit. It +is used to make it easy to determine where a bug originated, which can help +review a bug fix. This tag also assists the stable kernel team in determining +which stable kernel versions should receive your fix. This is the preferred +method for indicating a bug fixed by the patch. See #2 above for more details. + 15) The canonical patch format |