linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.16 105/133] mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment

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Message-ID: <20171123134257.fctx4ajj4yfgqg4s@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:42:57 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16 105/133] mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment

On Thu 23-11-17 13:05:10, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-11-22 at 08:41 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 11/22/2017 02:58 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > 3.16.51-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > I don't really care much in the end, but is "fix wrong comment" really a
> > stable patch material these days? :)
> 
> It had a Fixes: field and it clearly won't do any harm.

Fixes tag is sometimes abused this way. It will not do any harm but the
fewer patch to backport the better IMHO

> Still, none of the other stable branches has it so I'll drop it.

Makes sense.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs