linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Don't override scu in intel_scu_ipc_dev_simple

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Date:   Sat, 16 Sep 2023 14:14:07 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
        Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Don't override scu
 in intel_scu_ipc_dev_simple_command()

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 05:45:42PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Andy discovered this bug during patch review. The 'scu' argument to this
> > function shouldn't be overridden by the function itself. It doesn't make
> > any sense. Looking at the commit history, we see that commit
> > f57fa18583f5 ("platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Introduce new SCU IPC API")
> > removed the setting of the scu to ipcdev in other functions, but not
> > this one. That was an oversight. Remove this line so that we stop
> > overriding the scu instance that is used by this function.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZPjdZ3xNmBEBvNiS@smile.fi.intel.com
> 
> This looks somewhat unusual way to tag it. I'd just drop the Closes tag 
> as the email list is not a bug tracter.

This is a new requirement enforced by checkpatch.pl. If commit message has
the Reported-by: tag it should have Closes: one as well.


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko