Re: [PATCH] IB/cma: Fix reversed test

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> On Jan 28, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Majd Dibbiny <majd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
Please ignore the previous email.
It was part of an internal discussion..
> We have message sniffer that checks for unwanted prints after each test..
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 07:05:52PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
>>>> Do you think this patch needs "Fixes:" and "Cc: stable" tags?
>>> 
>>> It does not.
>> 
>> We always should have fixes tags.
>> 
>> When I'm reviewing, I try to look up the patch which introduced the bug
>> so I can figure out what the intent was.  Having a Fixes tag speeds up
>> my work.
>> 
>> Looking at how the bug was introduced sometimes helps to prevent bugs
>> from recurring in the future.  For example, I've seen several bugs
>> introduced because the right people weren't on the CC to review it.  For
>> this particular bug it feels like probably this bug could have been
>> detected with more testing.  I doubt it would have made it into a
>> released kernel.
>> 
>> Also it let's you CC the original authors and hopefully they can Ack it.
>> 
>> regards,
>> dan carpenter
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