On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 21:08:06 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 10:30:39AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > Thanks, we will submit it once net-next will be open. > > > > It should go via net FWIW. > > I'm slightly confused here. > > According to net policy, the patches that goes there should have Fixes > line, but Fixes lines are added for bugs [1]. > > This forgotten line in MAINTAINERS doesn't cause to any harm to > users/developers. Fair, maybe I worded it too strongly. I should have said something like "FWIW it's okay for MAINTAINERS updates to go via net". Documentation/ patches and MAINTAINERS are special, they can go into net without a Fixes tag so that changes to get_maintainer output and https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ propagate quickly. > So when should I put Fixes line in netdev? > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20211208070842.0ace6747@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
