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From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: process: submitting-patches: Clarify the
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 05:53:34PM +0200, 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@dev.tdt.de>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---

I've always lobbied for a Fixes-from for bug fixes that get folded into
the original patch but I also kind of agree with Dan Williams that
Reported-by tags are fine for new code.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAPcyv4gbgDMGBQ3t4q1EckELbMG5JXi10YuzLsMjFns67od=sw@mail.gmail.com/

Everyone can figure it out from the context that kbuild bot didn't
really tell anyone to write a new driver.  It's just the reported-by
count that's used to justify funding a team of devs.

regards,
dan carpenter