[Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH] radv: Fix driver UUID SHA1 init.

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Emil Velikov (2018-09-21 08:47:30)
> On 21 September 2018 at 08:19, Juan A. Suarez Romero
> <jasuarez at igalia.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 20:16 +0200, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:33 PM Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Thursday, 2018-09-20 19:17:57 +0200, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> >> > > Was missing the init, found by Emil.
> >> > >
> >> > > Fixes: d17443a4593 "radv: Use build ID if available for cache UUID."
> >> >
> >> > Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>
> >> >
> >> > > CC: <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
> >> >
> >> > Cc'ing mesa-stable has no effect when you're already adding the
> >> > proper Fixes: tag :)
> >>
> >> Last time I asked about the difference between Fixes and CC, the
> >> conclusion I got that Fixes is only best effort for the stable
> >> branches and that if it does not apply it will be dropped silently,
> >> while for the CC ones the release manager will notify you.
> >>
> >
> > In previous releases that was the way it worked: we always our best effort to
> > apply CC and Fixes patches. The difference was that if we couldn't apply the
> > patch, then we were only notifying in the pre-announcement "Rejected" section
> > about the CC, and silently ignoring the Fixes.
> >
> >
> > But nowadays, we notify about all the candidates to stable, which are CC and
> > Fixes.
> >
> Here is an alternative wording, hopefully it will make things clearer:
> 
> Both CC and Fixes work and having both does not hurt.
> 
> Fixes provides clear indication when/where the problem originates.
> Cc _explicitly_ requests the patch to be in stable - that's why we
> have the list + late nominations.
> 
> It _explicit_ nomination does _not_ apply then the nominator is informed.
> 
> -Emil

Yeah, that's not useful. We don't need a "you can put this in if you want but
don't tell me if you didn't". Either it's nominated or it's not. If Fixes:
doesn't mean "I want this in any stable branch with commit X" then we should
stop using the tag.

Dylan
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