docs/submittingpatches.html: document the Fixes tag

Provide information and an example.

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>
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<pre>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89689
</pre>
<li>If a patch addresses a issue introduced with earlier commit, that should be
noted in the patch comment. For example:
<pre>
Fixes: d7b3707c612 "util/disk_cache: use stat() to check if entry is a directory"
</pre>
<li>If there have been several revisions to a patch during the review
process, they should be noted such as in this example:
<pre>