On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:16 PM Julia Lawall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:38:43AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 09:06:54PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Markus Elfring wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Don't complain about a return when this function returns > > > > > > > "&pdev->dev". > > > > > > > > > > > > Would this information qualify to add the tag “Fixes” to the commit > > > > > > message? > > > > > > > > > > Fixes tags relate to stable kernels, so that one can see which stable > > > > > kernels a particular patch should be propagated to. There is no need > > > > > to > > > > > propagate patches on semantic patches to stable kernels. People who > > > > > run > > > > > stable kernels are interested in their behavior, not the bug finding > > > > > rules that they contain. > > > > > > > > The Fixes tag is not just about stable... For example, we use them for > > > > statistics to see how quickly bugs get fixed etc. > > > > > > OK. But still do we need fixes tags for bug finding rules? Perhaps if > > > the previous version was really broken, and it would be really undesirable > > > to use it. > > > > It's not worth resending a patch for that, but I probably would use the > > fixes tag. It depends on your definition of "bug" really... I tell > > people not to use Fixes for spelling mistakes and unused variables. But > > I do use the Fixes tag for things like "an off by one in a sanity check > > which doesn't affect run time because the index is always correct". > > OK, thanks. > > julia
I added Fixes: tag, and applied to linux-kbuild/fixes. Thanks. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list [email protected] https://systeme.lip6.fr/mailman/listinfo/cocci
