Re: [PATCH] Add short author date to Fixes tag

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 04:21:35PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> However, all of the existing tooling we have for the kernel does not
> support the date, and I think its not worth trying to change it at this
> point. It doesn't make sense to break all this tooling for information
> which is accessible in other forms. Indeed, as long as the hash is
> sufficiently long, the change of a collision is minimal.

And if it isn't long enough, tools like:
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241226220555.3540872-1-sashal@xxxxxxxxxx
can help figure it out as well.

thanks,

greg k-h