Commit 869f496e authored Jan 27, 2022 by Andy Shevchenko Committed by Jonathan Corbet Jan 27, 2022

docs: process: submitting-patches: Clarify the Reported-by usage



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>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127163258.48482-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

parent 4c97fdb0

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

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		@@ -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.

		A Tested-by: tag indicates that the patch has been successfully tested (in
		some environment) by the person named. This tag informs maintainers that