[PATCH 0/4] char-TPM: Adjustments for ten function implementations

[Mimi Zohar]

Hi Julia,

On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 12:11 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Dan Carpenter wrote:
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> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:56:42AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:35:12PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
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> > > > > A minor complaint: all commits are missing "Fixes:" tag.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Fixes is only for bug fixes.  These don't fix any bugs.
> > >
> > > 0-day seems to put Fixes for everything.  Should they be removed when the
> > > old code is undesirable but doesn't actually cause a crash, eg out of date
> > > API.
> >
> > Yeah, I feel like Fixes tags don't belong for API updates and cleanups.
> 
> OK, I will remove them from the patches that go through me where they
> don't seem appropriate.

The "Fixes" tag is an indication that the patch should be backported.
The requirements for what should be backported are pretty stringent. 

Mimi