On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 15:30 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 01:42:12PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > OK, I recall a discussion with Dan where he suggested that some things > > that were not actually bug fixes could also merit a Fixes tag. But it's > > probably better if he weighs in directly. > > I generally think Fixes should only be used for "real bug" fixes. > > The one exception is when I'm reviewing a patch that fixes an "unused > assignment" static checker warning is that I know which commit > introduced the warning. I don't have strong feelings if it's in the > Fixes tag or if it's just mentioned in the commit message. My view is that changes that silence compiler warnings are not fixing bugs and that these changes should generally not be backported. Compiler silencing changes marked as fixes can introduce other defects in working code. Backporting patches to stable trees should be conservatively rather than liberally applied. It seems that the actual backport maintainers disagree though.
