From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dave Chiluk <chiluk@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stable_kernel_rules: Add pointer to netdev-FAQ for network patches
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:38:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1403541530.15811.1.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403540548-17152-1-git-send-email-chiluk@canonical.com>
On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 11:22 -0500, Dave Chiluk wrote:
> Stable_kernel_rules should point submitters of network stable patches to the
> netdev_FAQ.txt as requests for stable network patches should go to netdev
> first.
[]
> diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
[]
> @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
>
> Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
>
> + - If the patch covers the networking subsystem please follow netdev stable
> + sumissision guidelines as described in
> + Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
Perhaps that should state net/ and drivers/net/ rather
than the networking subsystem which people might not
associate with the drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-23 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 16:22 Dave Chiluk
2014-06-23 16:38 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-06-23 17:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Dave Chiluk
2014-06-24 12:43 ` Bjørn Mork
2014-06-24 15:11 ` [PATCH v3] " Dave Chiluk
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