Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-12 Thread Fujinaka, 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 ; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel On 11/01/2018 10:40 μμ, Fujinaka,

Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-12 Thread Pavlos Parissis
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 pro

Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-11 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 11/01/2018 09:46 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > All these commits go through David Miller to Linus's tree. I'm not sure where > the documentation is. I'd start with kernel.org or google for it. > I will do another google round, may be I am lucky this time. > As for pullups to the stable trees,

Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-11 Thread Fujinaka, Todd
Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com -Original Message- From: Pavlos Parissis [mailto:pavlos.paris...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 1:15 PM To: Fujinaka, Todd ; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel On 11/01/2018

Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-11 Thread Fujinaka, Todd
cation Engineer Datacenter Engineering Group Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com -Original Message- From: Pavlos Parissis [mailto:pavlos.paris...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 7:28 AM To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [E1000-devel] Questions about mer

[E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-10 Thread Pavlos Parissis
Hi, I have been following this list for some time and I see a lot of commits with improvements and bug fixes and I would like to know if those commits are pushed to Linus's tree and more particular to stable trees. What is the current policy of back porting fixes to LTS kernels? When I look at