From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Norris Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 03:54:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference Message-Id: <20160717035404.GA14744@brian-ubuntu> List-Id: References: <20160715110629.GB9258@mwanda> <20160716003209.GC76613@google.com> <20160716090041.GC32247@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20160716090041.GC32247@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dan Carpenter Cc: David Woodhouse , Frans Klaver , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:00:41PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > I like the Fixes tag because it was my invention. :) It's a separate > thing from -stable. Ha, nice. Well I have nothing against the tag, and nothing against this patch. It's good to know that the Fixes tag is not (necessarily) a request-for-stable tag. > It's nice for reviewing so you can see the original intent of the patch > you're fixing. Also it forces you to find the original authors and CC > them so hopefully they Ack the patch. The other thing is it lets you > collect data about which patches introduce bugs and how quickly they > get fixed. So for example, lwn.net recently had an article about bug > that are backported into the -stable tree. All good things. I know personally it's helpful when tracking down bugs, or backporting drivers or features. Regards, Brian