Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/pl111: make structure pl111_display_funcs static

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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:19:58AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2017, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 01:08:20PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> >> OK, that's definitely not how I've read the
> >> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst description of the Fixes
> >> tag, which talks about bugs found with git bisect and things that should
> >> go to -stable.  I would not have considered what this patch is changing
> >> to be a bug.
> >
> > True.  I don't consider this a bug either.  I wouldn't have included a
> > Fixes tag.
> >
> > I pretty much agree with the submitting-patches.rst except it should
> > probably say to include it on more stuff.  Fixes: tags are required for
> > all bugfixes to netdev for example.
> 
> We use Fixes: in drm/i915 to basically indicate that the referenced
> commit has a bug that actually needs to be fixed, this patch is the fix,
> and should go wherever the referenced commit goes. Annotating typo fixes
> and missing static keywords and such is just noise from *our* POV, and
> need to be filtered out.

Yes, yes.  I agree.  Fixes should fix a bug.  I'm sorry, I didn't read
the original patch carefully, I just saw that people said Fixes meant
backporting to -stable.

regards,
dan carpenter

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