Ack. resubmitting to net branch and adding "Fixes" mark. ________________________________________ From: David Miller <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2017 11:11 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Belgazal, Netanel; [email protected]; Woodhouse, David; Machulsky, Zorik; Matushevsky, Alexander; BSHARA, Said; Wilson, Matt; Liguori, Anthony; Bshara, Nafea; Schmeilin, Evgeny Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] Bug fixes in ena ethernet driver
From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:19:54 -0700 > On 06/09/2017 03:13 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> From: Netanel Belgazal <[email protected]> >> >> This patchset contains fixes for the bugs that were discovered so far. > > If these are all fixes you should submit them against the "net" tree. > net-next is for features [1]. > > Since these are fixes, you may also want to provide a Fixes: 12-digit > commit ("commit subject") [2] such that David can queue these patches > for stable trees and this can be retrofitted into kernel distributions. > > [1]: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt#n25 > > [2]: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#n183 Yeah I agree. If they are genuine bug fixes they should be submitted against 'net'. And yes, Fixes: tags are quite desirable as well.
