[PATCH net 3/3] docs: netdev: add a cheat sheet for the rules
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-06-30 17:46:25
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documentation, documentation process, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Summarize the rules we see broken most often and which may be less familiar to kernel devs who are used to working outside of netdev. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> --- Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
index 7fb5100d195d..e57eb5bd3692 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ netdev FAQ ========== +tl;dr +----- + + - designate your patch to a tree - ``[PATCH net]`` or ``[PATCH net-next]`` + - for fixes the ``Fixes:`` tag is required, regardless of the tree + - don't post large series (> 15 patches), break them up + - don't repost your patches within one 24h period + - reverse xmas tree + What is netdev? --------------- It is a mailing list for all network-related Linux stuff. This
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