Commit 75d4e704 authored by Cong Wang's avatar Cong Wang Committed by David S. Miller

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: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 644c7eeb
......@@ -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?
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