On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:43:29 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This check looks for common words that probably indicate a patch > is a fix. For now the regex is: > > (?:(?:BUG: K.|UB)SAN: |Call Trace:|stable\@|syzkaller)/) > > Why are stable patches encouraged to have a fixes tag? Some people mark > their stable patches as "# 5.10" etc. This is useful but a Fixes tag is > still a good idea. I'd say that "# 5.10" is lame and it would be good if checkpatch could detect this and warn "hey, use a proper Fixes:". Because > It helps people to not cherry-pick buggy patches without also > cherry-picking the fix. seems pretty important.
