From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:17574 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430AbcGPJBZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2016 05:01:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:00:41 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Brian Norris 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 Subject: Re: [patch] mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference Message-ID: <20160716090041.GC32247@mwanda> References: <20160715110629.GB9258@mwanda> <20160716003209.GC76613@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160716003209.GC76613@google.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I like the Fixes tag because it was my invention. :) It's a separate thing from -stable. 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. regards, dan carpenter