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| author | Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> | 2018-06-05 09:48:13 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-06-05 14:19:45 -0400 |
| commit | 75d4e704fa8d2cf33ff295e5b441317603d7f9fd (patch) | |
| tree | 33b79f3396643ec12fc6d4b4a4552e76ec7abed4 | |
| parent | 644c7eebbfd59e72982d11ec6cc7d39af12450ae (diff) | |
| download | linux-75d4e704fa8d2cf33ff295e5b441317603d7f9fd.tar.bz2 | |
netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports
Per discussion with David at netconf 2018, let's clarify
DaveM's position of handling stable backports in netdev-FAQ.
This is important for people relying on upstream -stable
releases.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt index 2a3278d5cf35..fa951b820b25 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt @@ -179,6 +179,15 @@ A: No. See above answer. In short, if you think it really belongs in dash marker line as described in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst to temporarily embed that information into the patch that you send. +Q: Are all networking bug fixes backported to all stable releases? + +A: Due to capacity, Dave could only take care of the backports for the last + 2 stable releases. For earlier stable releases, each stable branch maintainer + is supposed to take care of them. If you find any patch is missing from an + earlier stable branch, please notify stable@vger.kernel.org with either a + commit ID or a formal patch backported, and CC Dave and other relevant + networking developers. + Q: Someone said that the comment style and coding convention is different for the networking content. Is this true? |