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

[Emil Velikov]

On 21 September 2018 at 16:55, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Fixes means "I want this _anywhere_ with commit X". No idea how you
read my comment otherwise ;-)

-Emil