linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] scsi: aic7xxx: fix some problem of return value

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Message-ID: <3d7307c5-0f93-9cef-0cef-34a4cc181d9b@nfschina.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 16:28:47 +0800
From:   Su Hui <suhui@...china.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc:     hare@...e.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] scsi: aic7xxx: fix some problem of return value

On 2023/12/5 16:14, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 11:33:36AM +0800, Su Hui wrote:
>> On 2023/12/1 15:53, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 10:59:53AM +0800, Su Hui wrote:
>>>> v2:
>>>>    - fix some problems and split v1 patch into this patch set.(Thanks to
>>>>      Dan)
>>>>
>>>> v1:
>>>>    - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231130024122.1193324-1-suhui@nfschina.com/
>>>>
>>> Would have been better with Fixes tags probably.  Otherwise, it looks
>>> good to me.
>> Hi, Dan
>>
>> Sorry for the late reply.
>>
>> I'm not sure if it's worth to add Fixes tags.
>> These codes are very old which come from "Linux-2.6.12-rc2".
> I know some people use Fixes tags to point to Linux-2.6.12-rc2 but
> other people don't like it...  Or they didn't like it back in the day,
> I'm not sure now.
>
>> It's seems like a cleanup or improvement.
> It's definitely a Fix.  It affects runtime.
>
>> Umm, should I send v3 patches to add Fixes tags?
> I don't really care, I guess.  Probably yes?  Not a lot of people use
> aic7xxx these days so from a practical perspective it's not super
> important either way.

Got it.  Maybe it's right to omit these old Fixes tags.

Su Hui