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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes sense as a central point for submitters to turn to, to lower the barrier for submission. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=== =---- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
