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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:13:31 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] media: staging: stkwebcam: Restore
 MEDIA_{USB,CAMERA}_SUPPORT dependencies
To:     Tommaso Merciai <tommaso.merciai@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
        Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzejtp2010@gmail.com>,
        Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>,
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Hi Tommaso,

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:08 AM Tommaso Merciai
<tommaso.merciai@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 04:58:33PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > By moving support for the USB Syntek DC1125 Camera to staging, the
> > dependencies on MEDIA_USB_SUPPORT and MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT were lost.
> >
> > Fixes: 56280c64ecacc971 ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")
>
> Patch itself looks good but we have some style issue. Applying this
> patch I got the following warning from checkpatchl:
>
> WARNING: Please use correct Fixes: style 'Fixes: <12 chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'Fixes: 56280c64ecac ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")'
> #10:
>
> You have to pass only the first 12 chars of the sha1 commit into Fixes
> msg:
>
> Use:
>
>  Fixes: 56280c64ecac ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")
>
> Instead of:
>
>  Fixes: 56280c64ecacc971 ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")

I always use 16 chars, to avoid these becoming ambiguous in a few years.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds