On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 08:57:13AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 11:25 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > > > > > Fixes is only for bug fixes. These don't fix any bugs. > > > > How do you distinguish these in questionable source code > > from other error categories or software weaknesses? > > A style change is one that doesn't change the effect of the execution. > These don't actually even change the assembly, so there's programmatic > proof they're not fixing anything. > > Bug means potentially user visible fault. In any bug fix commit you > should document the fault and its effects on users so those backporting > can decide if they care or not. > > James OK, I'll adjust my definition of a bug :-) /Jarkko -- 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
