Re: [PATCH v4] docs: submitting-patches: say which commit a Fixes tag names

[Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026, Sasha Levin wrote:
> +Name the commit that introduced the bug. When using ``git blame`` to find it,
> +do not settle on a commit that only moved the code. If a later commit exposed
> +an older bug, add a Fixes: tag for that commit too. If the same bug was
> +introduced separately by more than one commit, add a Fixes: tag for each.

Hi Sasha,

I went through v4 against the tree (docs-next at f857ff5bf):

- the new paragraph sits between the description of the Fixes: tag and
the existing "Note:" about the stable rules, and reads well there;
- handling-regressions.rst does ask for this ("Add a "Fixes:" tag to
specify the commit causing the regression"), so the reference in the
changelog is accurate;
- I built the process documentation with the patch applied and it adds
no new warnings.

One thing for information only: checkpatch --strict reports the
"Assisted-by: LLM" trailer ("Non-standard signature" and "Unrecognized
email address: 'LLM'"), because Documentation/process/ in docs-next does
not describe that tag. If it is defined in the agents series or in
another tree, please ignore this.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Daniel