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Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] checkpatch: make sure fix-up patches have Fixes
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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
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Date:   Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:42:07 -0800
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On Wed, 2022-01-19 at 16:46 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> If a patch contains "commit hash (commit name)", in other words
> if the patch fixes some particular commit, then require "Fixes:"
> tag.

I do not like this patch as many commits merely reference a
previous patch and do not actually fix anything.