Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/irqflags: Provide a declaration for native_save_fl

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Tue Aug 07 2018 - 12:47:01 EST


On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:29 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 1:33 PM tip-bot for Nick Desaulniers
> > <tipbot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Not sure if this was going to be cleaned up in an automated way, but
> > looks like this commit message drops the comment to stable as to how
> > far back it should go:
> >
> > # 4.17, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4
>
> The Fixes tag is enough. If the upstream commit was backported, then the
> tools of the stable folks will find it and know exactly how far it needs to
> go back.

Oh, cool.

> > also, there were tested by's reported:
> >
> > Tested-by: David Laight <david.laight@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Which came in after I applied it....

I've seen other maintainers revise commit messages before sending pull
requests along, but I guess that's problematic as anyone else who has
pulled before the revision would then have a merge conflict.
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers