Messages in this thread | | | From | Kalle Valo <> | Subject | stable-kernel-rules: wireless and netdev-FAQ | Date | Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:58:15 +0300 |
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(adding netdev and lkml)
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 05:31:57PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> >> Should the patch to wireless-drivers be annotated with a Stable reference so >> >> that it is added to 4.12 and 4.13? >> > >> > According to Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt networking patches >> > should not be marked cc:stable, instead a decent commit log should >> > be written describing a bugfix. Which I believe it is done for >> > this patch. >> >> But that's for net and net-next trees, not for wireless trees. With >> wireless patches we use "Cc: stable@..." references. > > Oh, ok. I was confused by below part of > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst > (because wireless drivers are located in drivers/net/) > > - If the patch covers files in net/ or drivers/net please follow netdev stable > submission guidelines as described in > Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
Yeah, that's confusing and should be clarified that wireless follows traditional stable process. IIRC bluetooth does the same so it's not just wireless.
Any volunteers to fix it? :)
-- Kalle Valo
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