Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the drm tree

[Rob Clark]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 10:16 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> In commit
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>   8caad14e7224 ("drm/msm/dpu: Fix pointer dereferenced before checking")
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> Fixes tag
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>   Fixes: d7d0e73f7de33 ("drm/msm/dpu: introduce the dpu_encoder_phys_* for
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> has these problem(s):
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>   - Subject has leading but no trailing parentheses
>   - Subject has leading but no trailing quotes
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> Fixes tags should not be truncated or split across more than 1 line.   So:
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> Fixes: d7d0e73f7de3 ("drm/msm/dpu: introduce the dpu_encoder_phys_* for writeback")

Hmm, checkpatch seems to not catch this (unless it was a recent
addition that landed after what msm-fixes is based on.

will the truncated subject confuse the scripts that look for patches
to backport to stable, ie. do we *really* have to rewrite history to
fix this?

BR,
-R