On 2/15/21 11:16 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:56:26PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: >> On 2/14/21 10:40 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 08:26:16PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: >>>> what does iproute2-rc mean? >>> >>> Patch target is iproute2.git: >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/ >> >> so you are asking them to be committed for the 5.11 release? > > This is a Fix to an existing issue (not theoretical one), so I was under > impression that it should go to -rc repo and not to -next. It is assigned to Stephen for iproute2. > > Personally, I don't care to which repo will this fix be applied as long > as it is applied to one of the two iproute2 official repos. > > Do you have clear guidance when should I send patches to iproute2-rc/iproute2-next? > It's the rc label that needs to be dropped: iproute2 or iproute2-next. Just like there is net and net-next.