From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Yeounsu Moon <yyyynoom@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: dlink: fix multicast stats being counted incorrectly
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:21:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72b73eef-4b12-453e-96d2-beacbdac8525@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC9Y9ZQA78BC.34TLXL2P7VT3T@gmail.com>
> Regarding the Fixes: tag, I have one question. You suggested
> 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2"), which is indeed the first commit in
> the current git history. However, the actual code change seems to go
> back further, and I found it in the history.git repository.
>
> In such cases, should the Fixes: tag refer to the first commit in the
> mailine git tree, or to the actual commit in history.git where the bug
> originated?
Nobody except historians care about history.git. In practice, nobody
cares about 2.6 either. https://www.kernel.org/ shows that v5.4 is the
oldest supported kernel. But Linux-2.6.12-rc2 is a convenient
reference point, so that is what is used when it has always been
broken in the git era.
Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-23 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-22 12:02 Yeounsu Moon
2025-08-22 15:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-08-23 16:33 ` Yeounsu Moon
2025-08-23 17:21 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
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