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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:31:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] irqchip fixes for 6.6, take #1
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Hi Ingo,

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 11:17 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> So the tags should be something like:
>
>   Fixes: 397ad94668c1 ("arm64: dts: qcom: sm8150: Add pdc interrupt controller node")
>   Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
>   Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
>   Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
>   Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>
>   Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230905-topic-sm8x50-upstream-pdc-ver-v4-2-fc633c7df84b@linaro.org
>
> Ie. we generally sort the tags not chronologically (or whatever the original idea
> was), but group them topically, sort the groups by importance, and only within
> the group is there chronological order.

The tags should represent the order of the hand-off chain:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.6-rc1/source/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#L449

and chronological history:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.6-rc1/source/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#L493

Although current b4 seems to move tags around sometimes...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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