Re: [PATCH] Add short author date to Fixes tag
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jan 2025 06:48:53 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 04:21:35PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote: > However, all of the existing tooling we have for the kernel does not > support the date, and I think its not worth trying to change it at this > point. It doesn't make sense to break all this tooling for information > which is accessible in other forms. Indeed, as long as the hash is > sufficiently long, the change of a collision is minimal. And if it isn't long enough, tools like: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] can help figure it out as well. thanks, greg k-h