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From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware_loader: re-export fw_fallback_config into
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:15:56PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>=20
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:14:20 +0000 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> w=
rote:
> >
> > > > Fixes: "firmware_loader: remove unused exports" =20
> > >=20
> > > Can't help but notice this strange form of the Fixes tag, is it
> > > intentional? =20
> >=20
> > Yeah, no there is no commit for the patch as the commit is ephemeral in
> > a development tree not yet upstream, ie, not on Linus' tree yet. Using a
> > commit here then makes no sense unless one wants to use a reference
> > development tree in this case, as development trees are expected to
> > rebase to move closer towards Linus' tree. When a tree rebases, the
> > commit IDs change, and this is why the commit is ephemeral unless
> > one uses a base tree / branch / tag.
>=20
> That commit is in Greg's driver-core tree which never rebases, so the
> SHA1 can be considered immutable.  This is (should be) true for most
> trees that are published in linux-next (I know it is not true for some).

Cool, but once merged on Linus' tree, I think it gets yet-another-commit
ID right? So someone looking for:

git show commit-id-on-gregs-driver-core-tree

It would not work? Or would it?

  Luis

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