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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:51:50 +0300
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for
 "trivial" patches
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:35:36AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> Our policy in SCSI for a long time has been no trivial patches accepted
> to maintained drivers, and I think that would be a good start if
> adopted kernel wide, but I think the next policy should be no trivial
> bug fix without a pointer to the actual bug report or report from a
> trusted static checker.  This would likely mean we have to create a
> list of trusted static checkers ... obviously 0day and coverity but
> what else?

How does the list get expanded if new static checker is not on
the list and its patches won't be applied?