diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 30dc00a364e8..be7d1829c3af 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -182,9 +182,11 @@ change five years from now.
 
 If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using
 ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of
-the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary.  For example::
+the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary.  Do not split the tag across multiple
+lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to simplify
+parsing scripts.  For example::
 
-	Fixes: e21d2170f366 ("video: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()")
+	Fixes: 54a4f0239f2e ("KVM: MMU: make kvm_mmu_zap_page() return the number of pages it actually freed")
 
 The following ``git config`` settings can be used to add a pretty format for
 outputting the above style in the ``git log`` or ``git show`` commands::