Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial: Create uart_xmit_advance()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 3:31 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:17:05PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > A very common pattern in the drivers is to advance xmit tail
> > index and do bookkeeping of Tx'ed characters. Create
> > uart_xmit_advance() to handle it.
> >
> > Fixes: e9ea096dd225 ("serial: tegra: add serial driver")
> > Fixes: 2d908b38d409 ("serial: Add Tegra Combined UART driver")
>
> This commit only adds a new function, it does not "Fix" anything :(

I'm wondering how to tell stable maintainers about dependencies of
(not yet applied) patches? In practice I saw that contributors use
Fixes tag for the entire chain (for the preparatory patches + the real
fix) when it's not easy / in a nice way to rebase to have a one-patch
fix followed by refactoring, etc.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko