Re: [PATCH] mtd: mtd-abi: Don't use C++ comments

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 01:29:47PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:15 PM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:56:58PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > Should there be a fixes by tag?
> >
> > Normally, I would have added one but this issue has been present since
> > the beginning of git history. According to Thomas Gleixner's pre-git
> > history tree, it would be:
> >
> > Fixes: 7df80b4c8964 ("MTD core include and device code cleanup")
> >
> > but since that hash doesn't exist in the normal git history, I don't
> > think it is worth adding. Of course, if the maintainers want to add it,
> > I won't object.
> >
> > [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
> 
> LOL good point; I wonder if the stable maintainers have thoughts on
> that or how they expect us to signal that case if we even need to do
> anything at all.

If you want it applied "since the beginning of time", then just do:

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 2.6.0+

or some such marking.

thanks,

greg k-h