On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:00:41PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > I like the Fixes tag because it was my invention. :) It's a separate > thing from -stable. Ha, nice. Well I have nothing against the tag, and nothing against this patch. It's good to know that the Fixes tag is not (necessarily) a request-for-stable tag. > It's nice for reviewing so you can see the original intent of the patch > you're fixing. Also it forces you to find the original authors and CC > them so hopefully they Ack the patch. The other thing is it lets you > collect data about which patches introduce bugs and how quickly they > get fixed. So for example, lwn.net recently had an article about bug > that are backported into the -stable tree. All good things. I know personally it's helpful when tracking down bugs, or backporting drivers or features. Regards, Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
