[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/skl: Fix up positive error code

Tvrtko Ursulin tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com
Tue Mar 24 10:21:35 PDT 2015


On 03/24/2015 02:44 PM, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On 03/24/2015 01:16 PM, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> It should have been negative since it is returned with ERR_PTR().
>>>
>>> Please always reference the commit that introduced the issue.
>>
>> Is there some more precisely defined criteria for "always"?
>
> Always when you fix a bug that was introduced by another commit?
>
> I need the commit reference to check if I need to queue the fix to
> current development kernel (i.e. v4.0-rcN).
>
> If someone backports the commit, it's easier to check if the commit is
> referenced by a later commit potentially fixing issues in it.

Sure, but all bugs are introduced by other commits. So my question was 
only along those lines, nothing more than that.

Regards,

Tvrtko


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