Ack.
resubmitting to net branch and adding "Fixes" mark.
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From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2017 11:11 PM
To: f.faine...@gmail.com
Cc: Belgazal, Netanel; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Woodhouse, David; Machulsky,
Zorik; Matushevsky, Alexander; BSHARA, Said; Wilson, Matt; Liguori, Anthony;
Bshara, Nafea; Schmeilin, Evgeny
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] Bug fixes in ena ethernet driver
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.
