All our work goes into the newer kernels. When is the question, and we're always submitting to mainline and do our development and test there.
As for backports, it was suggested to me that I tell you to go to the netdev mailing list and ask Dave Miller to submit it to stable. From there the individual stable tree maintainers can pull it. Netdev has rules and is a very high volume mailing list and so I also strongly suggest that you do some research before you post to that list. Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Datacenter Engineering Group Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com -----Original Message----- From: Pavlos Parissis [mailto:pavlos.paris...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 2:19 PM To: Fujinaka, Todd <todd.fujin...@intel.com>; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel On 11/01/2018 10:40 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > No, not the i40e driver, the maintainer of stable kernels. Start here: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS > I thought you meant the maintainer of the driver. As far as I know and learned by reading various kernel mailing lists the process goes like this: The maintainer of a subsystem (netdev for instance) receives commits from developers working on the subsystem and he is one of the main persons to request inclusion of commits to stable trees. The individual developers can also request inclusion. If those commits don't apply cleanly on stable kernels then either the commiter or maintainer has to backport those commits. I only asked the question in my effort to find out if kernel version 4.9 will receive fixes that has been mentioned here for i40e driver. Thanks for getting back to me, Pavlos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
