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From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>,
	Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: davidgow@google.com, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] list: test: remove unused struct 'klist_test_struct'
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 13:13:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9091516-37ff-43d1-b515-ae8eb3f80e80@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zlod5TMzmXinDu2X@gallifrey>

On 5/31/24 12:58, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Muhammad Usama Anjum (usama.anjum@collabora.com) wrote:
>> On 5/31/24 8:18 PM, linux@treblig.org wrote:
>>> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
>>>
>>> 'klist_test_struct' has been unused since the original
>>> commit 57b4f760f94d ("list: test: Test the klist structure").
>> Probably a fixes by tag would be needed here.
> 
> I'm generally avoiding fixes tags in this set of changes, since
>    a) They have no behavioural change at all.
>    b) Downstream and stable kernel people use fixes tags to indicate
>       stuff they should pick up if they have the original, and there's
>       no need for them to do that with this cleanup.
> 
> Dave

+1 on using careful use of Fixes tag only on real fixes for the
reasons mentioned above.

thanks,
-- Shuah


  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-31 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-31 15:18 [PATCH] list: test: remove unused struct 'klist_test_struct' linux
2024-05-31 18:19 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2024-05-31 18:58   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2024-05-31 19:13     ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2024-06-01  2:07 ` David Gow

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