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

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Nov 23 2017 - 08:43:04 EST


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.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs