Re: linux-next: Fixes tags need some work in the drm-fixes tree

[Philipp Zabel]

On Fri, 2019-06-21 at 21:41 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In commit
> 
>   912bbf7e9ca4 ("gpu: ipu-v3: image-convert: Fix image downsize coefficients")
> 
> Fixes tag
> 
>   Fixes: 70b9b6b3bcb21 ("gpu: ipu-v3: image-convert: calculate per-tile
> 
> has these problem(s):
> 
>   - Please don't split Fixes tags across more than one line
> 
> In commit
> 
>   bca4d70cf1b8 ("gpu: ipu-v3: image-convert: Fix input bytesperline for packed formats")
> 
> Fixes tag
> 
>   Fixes: d966e23d61a2c ("gpu: ipu-v3: image-convert: fix bytesperline
> 
> has these problem(s):
> 
>   - Please don't split Fixes tags across more than one line
> 
> In commit
> 
>   ff391ecd65a1 ("gpu: ipu-v3: image-convert: Fix input bytesperline width/height align")
> 
> Fixes tag
> 
>   Fixes: d966e23d61a2c ("gpu: ipu-v3: image-convert: fix bytesperline
> 
> has these problem(s):
> 
>   - Please don't split Fixes tags across more than one line
> 

I was under the impression that dim would have found those, but I only
just realized that "dim checkpatch" doesn't actually do any additional
checks beyond scripts/checkpatch.pl. Fixes tags are checked only as a
part of "dim push". I wonder if this could be changed [1].

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/maintainer-tools/merge_requests/5

regards
Philipp