From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:06:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: put_device: reduce false positives Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323329-139833865-1553371615=:5660" List-Id: References: <1553321671-27749-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn> <179bbdd1-3fcb-bba5-52b3-7f96973c7650@web.de> In-Reply-To: <179bbdd1-3fcb-bba5-52b3-7f96973c7650@web.de> To: Markus Elfring Cc: Yi Wang , Michal Marek , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Palix , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, Wen Yang This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-139833865-1553371615=:5660 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. julia --8323329-139833865-1553371615=:5660--