Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: tag_ksz: KSZ8795 and KSZ9477 also use tail tags

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Fri Oct 16 2020 - 13:24:54 EST


On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:16:03PM +0200, Christian Eggers wrote:
> I added it manually because the commit ID is not from Linus' tree. Is there any
> value using Fixes tags with id's from other trees?

Yes, that's what "git merge" does, it keeps sha1sums.
You should check out "git log --oneline --graph --decorate" some time.
Every maintainer's history is linear, and so is Linus's.