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. regards, dan carpenter
