From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26300C433EF for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:22:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244606AbiA0RWB (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:22:01 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33762 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S244587AbiA0RVo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:21:44 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15B71C06174A; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:21:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=++lt+r3Y4bab0BW17JDv/wIUj9g0zt5v7cL/jioKeD0=; b=czZbjO7aOmG9ULVsiPLq0AKYyk 8qBtfGEiLrKZBGqIHHOzsEZA2c5rbVMKc5G6FbwhDyE3oV4TBssSL9yj5tfHR1ObUh+x1o9qglJ1V mYCQ0I0lkGHUl7RaK9paMq7G66fkz7KefVBUqlvb2qpCKTUjRsRGpoHk1LF2RYE4UsX1g3j+Hgfpf ytc9McdcWB8PJpHiZOCUGw1lGLIkgQuxBi4GMoW3NCXa3PmW9aXD7CjbS1M1OuH7FQvpno3S4L8U2 DFszPJcNd4jvHawf813oPG/SoUqbSxiZvXuzF5+IgrcHre7f/D6/fFV7wF0NbM2lPnuZNZF4PA5uT zuGNJhgQ==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::aa0b] by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nD8Sd-005Snl-3S; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:21:27 +0000 Message-ID: <1e2e99f6-e9bf-7d93-9629-3d70275c77f4@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:21:21 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs: process: submitting-patches: Clarify the Reported-by usage Content-Language: en-US To: Andy Shevchenko , Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Florian Eckert References: <20220127163258.48482-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20220127163258.48482-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko > --- > 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 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 -- ~Randy