Hi,
attached patch points people to the channel for networking patches.
We recently had a Debian bug reporter who stumbled over that.
Cheers,
Moritz>From 0f86eb3a915c9f287748513c52e09dcf9c25823b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:29:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document that networking-related patches are not directly
sent to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
index cbc2f03..abe5b2b 100644
--- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
+ - Patches related to networking are handled differently; they are routed
+ through Dave Miller. Please see Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
+ for details.
- Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. You must note the upstream commit ID in the
changelog of your submission, as well as the kernel version you wish
--
1.7.10.4