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
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