Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 044/167] drm/amdgpu: validate user pitch alignment

On 2019-09-07 4:58 p.m., Alex Deucher wrote:

The patch shuffling doesn't help, but regardless, the same thing could happen even with a direct committer tree if someone missed the tag when committing.

True, but in the latter case it would at least be possible to add tags referencing persistent commit hashes regardless of when fix-ups happen, whereas with the former this isn't possible before the original change makes it to Linus or at least Dave.