Re: [PATCH v1] usb: chipidea: tegra: Fix missed ci_hdrc_remove_device()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 05:33:05PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 26.02.2019 13:56, Greg Kroah-Hartman ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 08:07:15AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> >> Ð Mon, 25 Feb 2019 02:27:19 +0000
> >> Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> >>
> >>>  
> >>>>
> >>>> Fixes: dfebb5f43a78827a ("usb: chipidea: Add support for
> >>>> Tegra20/30/114/124")  
> >>>
> >>> I suppose you need to apply at stable tree too, right?
> >>>
> >>
> >> It is enough to have the "Fixes" tag to get patch backported into all
> >> relevant kernel versions.
> > 
> > No it is not.  My scripts do NOT trigger off of the fixes: tag, please
> > read:
> >     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > for how to do this properly.
> 
> Okay, my bad then. Maybe this is something that could warned by checkpatch.. adding Joe and Andy to the thread.

Why?  It's allowed to put fixes: tags for a patch that does not belong
in a stable tree.  That happens all the time, and is encouraged.  Look
at some of the stuff in linux-next now, we have Fixes: for commits that
are still in linux-next as well, because we do not rebase our trees.
When they all merge into Linus's tree, all is good.

So this is not something that checkpatch needs to do anything about.

thanks,

greg k-h