Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs: process: submitting-patches: Clarify the Reported-by usage

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/27/22 08:32, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> It's unclear from "Submitting Patches" documentation that Reported-by
> is not supposed to be used against new features. (It's more clear
> in the section 5.4 "Patch formatting and changelogs" of the "A guide
> to the Kernel Development Process", where it suggests that change
> should fix something existing in the kernel. Clarify the Reported-by
> usage in the "Submitting Patches".
> 
> Reported-by: Florian Eckert <fe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: rephrased as suggested by Jonathan
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index 31ea120ce531..fb496b2ebfd3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -495,7 +495,8 @@ Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes:
>  The Reported-by tag gives credit to people who find bugs and report them and it
>  hopefully inspires them to help us again in the future.  Please note that if
>  the bug was reported in private, then ask for permission first before using the
> -Reported-by tag.
> +Reported-by tag. The tag is intended for bugs; please do not use it to credit
> +feature requests.
>  

LGTM.
Although it could refer to Suggested-by.  :)

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks.

>  A Tested-by: tag indicates that the patch has been successfully tested (in
>  some environment) by the person named.  This tag informs maintainers that

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~Randy