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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, marcel@redhat.com, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 06/13] virtio: read virtio_net_config correctly
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:27:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4759700.UeY5nRH9Wr@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151020072327.GV3115@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>

2015-10-20 15:23, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:07:49AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2015-10-09 13:46, Yuanhan Liu:
> > > From: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > The old code adjusts the config bytes we want to read depending on
> > > what kind of features we have, but we later cast the entire buf we
> > > read with "struct virtio_net_config", which is obviously wrong.
> > 
> > When describing a bug, it is important to explain what is the consequence,
> > i.e. which use case is failing. If it is only to prepare the new feature,
> > it is better to clearly state that the bug had no impact until now.
> > 
> > And as usual, the "fix" word in the title and the "Fixes" tag are required.
> 
> What's the right way supposed to use "Fixes" tag, BTW? Checking the git
> hisotry, I saw something like:
> 
> 	Fixes: $commit_hash ($commit_log).

In http://dpdk.org/dev, this git alias is recommended:
	fixline = log -1 --abbrev=12 --format='Fixes: %h (\"%s\")'

> Which basically means it's a regression fix. However, in this case, it's
> more than like a bug, but not a regression.

Referencing the original commit (introducing the bug) makes it clear.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-20  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-09  5:45 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/13] vhost-user multiple queues enabling Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 01/13] vhost-user: add protocol features support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/13] vhost-user: add VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM message Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 03/13] vhost: vring queue setup for multiple queue support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  6:49   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-20  6:56     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 04/13] vhost: rxtx: prepare work " Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  6:57   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-20  7:10     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  7:24       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 05/13] vhost-user: handle VHOST_USER_RESET_OWNER correctly Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  7:03   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-20  7:14     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 06/13] virtio: read virtio_net_config correctly Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  7:07   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-20  7:23     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  7:27       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-10-20  8:00         ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 07/13] vhost-user: enable vhost-user multiple queue Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 08/13] vhost: add VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE message Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 09/13] vhost: add API bind a virtq to a specific core Yuanhan Liu
     [not found]   ` <C37D651A908B024F974696C65296B57B4B12E8D3@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2015-10-20  6:25     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  7:17       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 10/13] ixgbe: support VMDq RSS in non-SRIOV environment Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-20  7:46   ` Thomas Monjalon
     [not found]   ` <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB97725836AB3299@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com>
2015-10-21 13:01     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21 13:03       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 11/13] examples/vhost: demonstrate the usage of vhost mq feature Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 12/13] examples/vhost: add per queue stats Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09  5:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 13/13] doc: update release note for vhost-user mq support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-09 13:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/13] vhost-user multiple queues enabling Marcel Apfelbaum
2015-10-19 13:16 ` Flavio Leitner
2015-10-20 10:39 ` Marcel Apfelbaum

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