From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:19:54 -0700

> On 06/09/2017 03:13 PM, neta...@amazon.com wrote:
>> From: Netanel Belgazal <neta...@amazon.com>
>> 
>> 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.

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