From 869f496e1aa6d2b9a8653d65aa7040970f76627a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:32:58 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127163258.48482-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process') 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. A Tested-by: tag indicates that the patch has been successfully tested (in some environment) by the person named. This tag informs maintainers that -- cgit v1.2.3