> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 18:56:23 +0800 (GMT+08:00) dinghao....@zju.edu.cn > wrote: > > > I used this one for a test: > > > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/1609312994-121032-1-git-send-email-abaci-bug...@linux.alibaba.com/ > > > > > > I'm not getting the Fixes tag when I download the mbox. > > > > It seems that automatically generating Fixes tags is a hard work. > > Both patches and bugs could be complex. Sometimes even human cannot > > determine which commit introduced a target bug. > > > > Is this an already implemented functionality? > > I'm not sure I understand. Indeed finding the right commit to use in > a Fixes tag is not always easy, and definitely not easy to automate. > Human validation is always required. > > If we could easily automate finding the commit which introduced a > problem we wouldn't need to add the explicit tag, backporters could > just run such script locally.. That's why it's best if the author > does the digging and provides the right tag. > > The conversation with Konstantin and Florian was about automatically > picking up Fixes tags from the mailing list by the patchwork software, > when such tags are posted in reply to the original posting, just like > review tags. But the tags are still generated by humans.
It's clear to me, thanks. Regards, Dinghao
