linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/pl111: make structure pl111_display

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2017 23:16:41 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
Cc:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Tom Cooksey <tom.cooksey@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/pl111: make structure pl111_display_funcs
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On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 01:08:20PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> OK, that's definitely not how I've read the
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst description of the Fixes
> tag, which talks about bugs found with git bisect and things that should
> go to -stable.  I would not have considered what this patch is changing
> to be a bug.

True.  I don't consider this a bug either.  I wouldn't have included a
Fixes tag.

I pretty much agree with the submitting-patches.rst except it should
probably say to include it on more stuff.  Fixes: tags are required for
all bugfixes to netdev for example.

regards,
dan carpenter