On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 08:25 -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: sunil.kovv...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:35:19 +0530 > > > From: Sunil Goutham <sgout...@cavium.com> > > > > These patches add byte queue limit support and also fixes a regression > > issue introduced by commit > > 'net: thunderx: Use netdev's name for naming VF's interrupts' > > The correct way to refer to commits when you fix a bug is > to use the "Fixes: " tag right before the signoffs and ACKs. > > The correct form is: > > Fixes: $SHA1_ID ("Commit header line.") > > You'll see this in many other netdev commits.
Thanks a lot David for this enforcement, it really helps bug tracking and backports Note that the $SHA1_ID should be truncated to 12 first chars. Refer to Documentation/SubmittingPatches around line 191 for more details.