linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] nfsd: Drop LIST_HEAD where the variable it declares is never used.

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Date:   Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:49:21 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:     Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>, Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
        Dros Adamson <dros@...marydata.com>,
        jeff.layton@...marydata.com, richard.sharpe@...marydata.com,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] nfsd: Drop LIST_HEAD where the variable it
 declares is never used.

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 09:36:27AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi Mao-
> 
> > On Nov 1, 2019, at 7:40 AM, Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The declarations were introduced with the file, but the declared
> > variables were not used.
> > 
> > Fixes: 65294c1f2c5e ("nfsd: add a new struct file caching facility to nfsd")
> 
> I'm not sure a Fixes: tag is necessary here? 65294c1f2c5e
> works fine without this change, and it's not something we
> would need to backport into stable kernels.
> 
> This is more of a clean up patch.
> 

Fixes is not really related to backports or stable.  I would agree that
this isn't a bug but just a cleanup, but the problem is that other
people want Fixes tags for everything...

Yesterday I sent a cleanup patch and I almost put the Fixes tag under
the --- cut off but in the end I just deleted it...  It's hard to know
what the right thing is.

regards,
dan carpenter