From nobody Fri Oct 3 05:27:02 2025 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CB8119E7E2; Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:45:35 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756997135; cv=none; b=baiKGV46JouT0cNpDLJZgwUVoB814xnO5jRXdFafplODI6icMy2iOwM2kpG+WwbsAonhAX56Qj0T0VhI2hgp5b/fhrhwegsLWWaKsSzhl9ctXnFZ5KdYSstjobDUQmMFsbopVU7CZfL8eGkePcoxczHFhzEnu+kGXCsi2nPAggg= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756997135; c=relaxed/simple; bh=XHMmkTr7QqEdwjATp4KAb0FF4TPhUtb+qZ3rX6Y6yPA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=OOPvOqkBCMC2b9LPdTXHc60gNRIFlsnGdGd52CjZ3IH8IeBJXgBuZyIXOC75Py8rK4VxZ7BMcro+oxe8yoWgukw8aKGoz51QsJd3h2yZ1Lf8scFQPdiejLYWtJC4z3VqJDSvnRhAnd++zT24aYlaCwTLwqobIVLNGiAxEPNpYQc= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Oo+IHaKk; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Oo+IHaKk" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 37833C4CEF0; Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:45:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1756997135; bh=XHMmkTr7QqEdwjATp4KAb0FF4TPhUtb+qZ3rX6Y6yPA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=Oo+IHaKkQrJkUcg5Cx939qVCgMm9cAJyWMWcFIuJt4o8Mgh7TNnS9nG07iZNJAR05 dqElEkA7/go4s62ai04Jptd1b3y016cQ2OIZ/fbjZ11ARYHIVcnJuDcT3IfxKo8ChV zRyJwzrUf3hZCeI3aKeEL1bjsh0XbhCnln9tKwUl944KlreuGe8OrF1ELYmKSuqA8O F8Ag9sO9UdYvXZgHr+ciXP+ccbGdKG+A0kcXBwcUs8p4EsBfM8OThBdNhpncCmm/v7 N1e1QY7Icrsp9oaEqCu7A92XYiP7FHUo831BX5oETV/MXuqR88vhovz+HoAKQyycfy dmnpp5U5P9Ksg== From: Jakub Kicinski To: corbet@lwn.net Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski Subject: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: adjust Fixes definition slightly Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 07:45:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20250904144533.2146576-1-kuba@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Every now and then people send stylistic patches and use Fixes purely to refer to a commit which added the ugly or unnecessary code. Reword the docs about Fixes. It should hopefully be enough to lead with the word "bug" rather than "issue". We can add more verbiage later, tho, let's try the word swap first. I always feel like the more words the smaller the chance someone will actually read the docs. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/p= rocess/submitting-patches.rst index cede4e7b29af..5778cb9701e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -602,8 +602,8 @@ future. Note, this is one of only three tags you might = be able to use without explicit permission of the person named (see 'Tagging people requires permission' below for details). =20 -A Fixes: tag indicates that the patch fixes an issue in a previous commit.= It -is used to make it easy to determine where a bug originated, which can help +A Fixes: tag indicates that the patch fixes a bug in a previous commit. It +is used to make it easy to determine where an issue originated, which can = help review a bug fix. This tag also assists the stable kernel team in determin= ing which stable kernel versions should receive your fix. This is the preferred method for indicating a bug fixed by the patch. See :ref:`describe_changes` --=20 2.51.0