From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:00:41 +0300 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160716090041.GC32247@mwanda> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20160716003209.GC76613@google.com> I like the Fixes tag because it was my invention. :) It's a separate thing from -stable. It's nice for reviewing so you can see the original intent of the patch you're fixing. Also it forces you to find the original authors and CC them so hopefully they Ack the patch. The other thing is it lets you collect data about which patches introduce bugs and how quickly they get fixed. So for example, lwn.net recently had an article about bug that are backported into the -stable tree. regards, dan carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 09:00:41 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160716090041.GC32247@mwanda> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20160716003209.GC76613@google.com> I like the Fixes tag because it was my invention. :) It's a separate thing from -stable. It's nice for reviewing so you can see the original intent of the patch you're fixing. Also it forces you to find the original authors and CC them so hopefully they Ack the patch. The other thing is it lets you collect data about which patches introduce bugs and how quickly they get fixed. So for example, lwn.net recently had an article about bug that are backported into the -stable tree. regards, dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-16 9:01 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-07-15 11:06 [patch] mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference Dan Carpenter 2016-07-15 11:06 ` Dan Carpenter 2016-07-16 0:32 ` Brian Norris 2016-07-16 0:32 ` Brian Norris 2016-07-16 0:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman 2016-07-16 0:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman 2016-07-16 1:46 ` Brian Norris 2016-07-16 1:46 ` Brian Norris 2016-07-16 9:00 ` Dan Carpenter [this message] 2016-07-16 9:00 ` Dan Carpenter 2016-07-17 3:54 ` Brian Norris 2016-07-17 3:54 ` Brian Norris
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