Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: put_device: reduce false positives

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sat Mar 23 2019 - 16:07:06 EST




On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > Don't complain about a return when this function returns "&pdev->dev".
>
> Would this information qualify to add the tag âFixesâ to the commit message?

Fixes tags relate to stable kernels, so that one can see which stable
kernels a particular patch should be propagated to. There is no need to
propagate patches on semantic patches to stable kernels. People who run
stable kernels are interested in their behavior, not the bug finding
rules that they contain.

julia