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| author | Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> | 2018-06-05 09:48:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-06-13 16:16:42 +0200 |
| commit | 064257ca9397eac2fcd343866e2afc9abd0b61e0 (patch) | |
| tree | bf20f76ddca20d3a2462aa5f3370ccc0b53e89dd | |
| parent | 0ae3ff2e4317be219575f48fd4b118b5b39b7a5e (diff) | |
netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports
[ Upstream commit 75d4e704fa8d2cf33ff295e5b441317603d7f9fd ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -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 a20b2fae942b..56af008e9258 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt @@ -168,6 +168,15 @@ A: No. See above answer. In short, if you think it really belongs in dash marker line as described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches 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? |