linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] char-TPM: Adjustments for ten function implementations

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Message-Id: <1508241146.4234.16.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:52:26 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@...hat.com>,
        Kenneth Goldman <kgold@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>,
        Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] char-TPM: Adjustments for ten function
 implementations

Hi Julia,

On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 12:11 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:56:42AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:35:12PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > A minor complaint: all commits are missing "Fixes:" tag.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Fixes is only for bug fixes.  These don't fix any bugs.
> > >
> > > 0-day seems to put Fixes for everything.  Should they be removed when the
> > > old code is undesirable but doesn't actually cause a crash, eg out of date
> > > API.
> >
> > Yeah, I feel like Fixes tags don't belong for API updates and cleanups.
> 
> OK, I will remove them from the patches that go through me where they
> don't seem appropriate.

The "Fixes" tag is an indication that the patch should be backported.
The requirements for what should be backported are pretty stringent. 

Mimi