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Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:50:42 -0500
From:   Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
To:     Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] nfsd: fix check of statid returned from call to
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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.