Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag
authorJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:36:39 +0000 (14:36 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 Jul 2014 01:54:15 +0000 (18:54 -0700)
commita5e309febc0b735c21ca29d32dabb5e9f546708c
treece3cc720526a50b0c4223bfe72aeee48eccdb9c0
parent3ca696839223ed38faeaf9b215b35c91ef6a5811
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag

commit 8401aa1f59975c03eeebd3ac6d264cbdfe9af5de upstream.

Update the SubmittingPatches process to include howto about the new
'Fixes:' tag to be used when a patch fixes an issue in a previous commit
(found by git-bisect for example).

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/SubmittingPatches