From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756228AbXGPHvb (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:51:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752513AbXGPHvX (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:51:23 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:56102 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750988AbXGPHvW (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:51:22 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <469B2372.2040004@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:51:14 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070609 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jimmy bahuleyan CC: TripleX Chung , Jesper Juhl , trivial@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ask for help, about the trivial patches. References: <4697C980.1040902@zh-kernel.org> <9a8748490707131354y37793f0ag2c01b2bdf968f8cc@mail.gmail.com> <469A4B9B.4040008@zh-kernel.org> <469A6B1A.2040908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <469A6B1A.2040908@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jimmy bahuleyan wrote: > TripleX Chung wrote: >> But I still have problems. >> Trivial means "of little worth or importance". But some of the examples >> in the rules are important, like "runtime fixes". Spell fixes must be >> unimportant, but most of the runtime fixes like memory leaks or NULL >> pointers must be important. I was still a little confused with them. >> > > Literally, yes. But look at it from a s/w engineering point of view. > > A NULL pointer deref is important, but it is also a *very local* and > very obvious fix (one that doesn't need extensive testing, one that > doesn't have effects spread out over many modules that requires great > amount of thought). > > So such things are trivial bug-fixes. Yes; it's more the /handling/ of the patch that is "trivial" in a strict sense. Bug fixes should usually go through maintainers. But for fixes which are obvious == easy to verify, trivial@kernel.org makes sense as a central point for submitters to turn to, to lower the barrier for submission. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=== =---- http://arcgraph.de/sr/